Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650

Reading Debates over Risk and Reward
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-94-6372-719-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World

Centered on moral critiques of wealth and the unequal distribution of risks and rewards in the lengthy voyages required by the East Indies trade, this book examines the debates surrounding England’s earliest global trading ventures. Arguments over the staggering loss of lives and national resources and struggles over control of the new trade in luxuries reveal the forging of rationales justifying the new capitalist inequalities. Yet Company servants traveling abroad to conduct the risky trade resisted this newly coalescing social formation through strategic disobedience to their masters’ will, controlling information and promoting ignorance when it served their financial and sexual purposes. Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600–1650 interrogates the forces that shaped England’s earliest forays into capitalist imperialism by tracing the battles over corporate control of men’s finances, marriages, and bare survival at the dawn of its global trade.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schleck, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Wasting Mariners: Kayll vs Digges

Chapter 2 - Justifying Wealth: Arguments over Control of the Trade

Chapter 3 - Contending with the Ocean: Battles over Private Trade

Chapter 4 - Desiring Servants: Liaisons Abroad

Conclusion

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Schleck, Julia
Dr. Julia Schleck is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She is the author of Telling True Tales of Islamic Lands: Forms of Mediation in Early English Travel Writing, 1575-1630 (2011) and Dirty Knowledge: Academic Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism (2022).