Maxine Berg University of Warwick British Trade with Asia: Historiography and Material Culture a new foregrounding of the role of India and China in emerging European industrialization. China and India were the first industrial regions Europe's Asian Centuries Trading Eurasia Global History and Culture Centre Department of History - University of WarwickAsian Export Ware and Industrial Revolution Asian Goods in the Political Economy of Europe Asian Goods and European Consumer Cultures Asian Goods: Making and Distributing Asian Goods and the Transmission of Knowledge Bringing global perspectives and interdisciplinary methods to bear on histories of industrialization, consumer society and material culture Investigating the long distance trade between Asia and Europe in material goods and culture that transformed the early modern world. Research People Themes Professor Maxine Berg Project Director Dr Hanna Hodacs Research Fellow Dr Chris Nierstrasz Research Fellow Dr Felicia Gottman Research Fellow Dr Helen Clifford Museum Consultant Ms Meike Fellinger PhD Student Ms Anna Guszcza Project Administrator Products and qualities Historiography Sources case study: Commercial accounts in the India Office Library Dr. Felicia Gottmann & Dr. Chris Nierstrasz Historiographies Industrialization Consumer Culture Trade and Colonization Economic history inward looking But history of science and technology wide European framework of Britains indusrialization Joel Mokyr Global history: Pomeranz China and Europe But English exceptionalism Robert Allen Consumer and industrious revolutions Jan de Vries Histories of colonialism and empire Historiography of the English East India Company A few facts: Founded 1600; amalgamation charter legalising entry of private traders 1833 Company ceased to be a trading company 1858 Company liquidated. Surveys: Sanjay Subrahmanyam Philip Stern Older literature: Comparative East India Companies Business history and Company history: Chaudhuri; Huw Bowen Indian Ocean World Connected histories vs. National histories and area studies Subrahmanyam Private and Privilege Trade Networks of merchants Local knowledge and brokered world Size of Privilege trade Private and family papers of merchants Material culture: Size of Asia trade to Europe: 50,000 tons a year or one pound of Asian goods per person in the late 18thC. Variety of textiles: 50 different varieties Market development: Printed calicoes vs. Shirts and sheeting Coromandel Coast, V&A Collections Chinaware: Official imports: current ware Private Trade: specialty goods New sources: Orphanages Poor Law Records Material Culture Initiatives at Warwickhcc/research/globalporcelain/ Material Encounters of the East India Companies