The English East India Company's silk enterprise in Bengal, 1750-1850 : economy, empire and business /

This book examines the silk-processing activities of the English East India Company in Bengal and presents the Company as a manufacturer rather than a trading body or political agent. Silk was one of the first globally traded commodities; its luxury status and potential to create tax revenues and em...

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Autore principale: Hutkova, Karolina (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Boydell Press 2019.
Serie:Worlds of the East India Company ; v. 16.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvb4bvj8