Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established scholars as well as new, to provide a full comparative and connective study of this trade.

Contents 1. General Introduction and Section Introduction: Europe's Trade with Asia; Maxine Berg 2. Understanding Eurasian Trade in the Era of the Trading Companies; Jan de Vries Section Introduction: Objects of Encounter and Transfers of Knowledge; Maxine Berg 3. Spirited Transactions: The Morals and Materialities of Trade Contacts between the Dutch, the British, and the Malays (1596-1619); Romain Bertrand 4. The Indigo Trade of the English East India Company in the Seventeenth Century: Challenges and Opportunities; Ghulam Nadri 5. The Orient and the dawn of Western industrialization: Armenian calico printers from Constantinople in Marseilles (1669-1686); Olivier Raveux 6. Europe - China - Europe: The Transmission of the Craft of Painted Enamel in the 17th and 18th Centuries; Xiaodong Xu 7. Patterns of Design in Qing-China and Britain during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century; Dagmar Schafer 8. Indian Weavers and East India Company Markets: Surat and Dhaka in the 1790s; Maxine Berg Section Introduction: Private Trade and Networks; Chris Nierstrasz 9. The Eurasian Diamond Trade in the Eighteenth Century: a Balanced Model of Complementary Markets; Tijl Vanneste 10. British Private Trade Networks and Metropolitan Connections in the Eighteenth Century; Timothy Davies 11. Worlds Apart? Merchants, Mariners, and the Organization of the Private Trade in Chinese Export Wares in Eighteenth-Century Europe; Meike Fellinger 12. The Dutch and the English East India Company's Trade in Indian Textiles in the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Century: A Comparative View; Om Prakash Section Introduction: Consuming East and West; Felicia Gottmann 13. Becoming Consumers: Asiatic Goods in Migrant and Native-born Middling Households in 18th Century Amsterdam; Anne McCants 14.'Exotic' Goods? Far-Eastern Commodities for the French Market in India in the Eighteenth Century; Kevin Le Doudic 15. Selling India and China in the Eighteenth-Century Paris; Natacha Coquery 16. Textile Furies - the French State and the Retail and Consumption of Asian Cottons 1686-1759; Felicia Gottmann Section Introduction: A Taste for Tea; Hanna Hodacs 17. The Popularisation of Tea: East India Companies, Private Traders, Smugglers and the Consumption of Tea in Western Europe, 1700-1760; Chris Nierstraz 18. Chests, Tubs, and Lots of Tea - the European Market for Chinese Tea and the Swedish East India Company, c. 1730-1760; Hanna Hodacs and Leos Muller 19. A North Europe World of Tea: Scotland & the Tea Trade, ca. 1690- ca.1790; Andrew Mackillop 20. Arriving to a Set Table: The Integration of Hot Drinks in the Urban Consumer Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Southern Low Countries; Bruno Blonde and Wouter Ryckbosch 21. For the Home and the Body: Dutch and Indian Ways of Early Modern Consumption; Jos Gommans