Silk and Tea in the North : Scandinavian Trade and the Market for Asian Goods in Eighteenth-Century Europe.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Colour Plates -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Global, European and Scandinavian Histories and the East India Trade -- Following tea and silk to the North -- Global history and the Scandinavian Eurasian trade -- Early-modern consumption in Europe and Scandinavia -- Useful knowledge, material culture and change -- Outline of the book -- 1 The Scandinavian Trade with China -- Excitement, speculations and rumours -- Histories of the Scandinavian East India companies -- The same but different -- Overlapping sources -- 2 Dusty, Ready-blended Tea from the North -- Scandinavian smuggled goods and the British tea market -- Swift dealings greased by silver -- Assessing, negotiating and blending tea like the Swedes -- Packing and tracking the cargo -- Competition and transparency on the European tea market -- A European taste convergence -- Conclusion -- 3 A Colourful Cargo for a Motley People -- Silk and European fashion -- Chinese silk close up -- Irregular and diverging -- Controversial populuxe -- Colours by name -- Fluctuating colours and fixed assortments -- Conclusion -- 4 Transferring and Substituting Tea and Colours -- Inventing Canton -- Kings tea and Cape tea -- From China to India, via Sweden -- Global dyes and local colours -- Universal colours and synthetic dyes -- Conclusion -- 5 Conclusion - New Chronologies and Geographies -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Bibliography -- Index.

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