Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650

Reading Debates over Risk and Reward

Julia Schleck (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2024
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-719-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	94-6372-719-1 / 9463727191
ISBN-13	978-94-6372-719-8 / 9789463727198
Zustand	Neuware