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Conflicting claims to East India Company wealth, 1600-1650
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.
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714)
Early modern, East India Company, trade, maritime, global connections, East India Company, 17th Century, Dutch, Colonial History
Entanglements, interactions, and economies in the early modern world