Beginning Eastward From London: a study in the domestic establishment of the British East India Company (1599-1660)
Essay on early years and development of the Company (Chris Godat)
The British Presence in India in the 18th Century
Essay about the East India Company at the BBC website (Peter Marshall)
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
online collection of more than 15,800 maps, focusing on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps, with historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa (Cartography Associates)
Early Modern India and World History
essay attempting to ‘place India (or South Asia) within its own context in the early modern world’ (John Richards)
Early Modern Japan
Bibliography (Lee Makela)
Early modern Japan
part of a larger set of resources on the history of Japan (Robert Y Eng)
Early Modern Japan Network
An interdisciplinary international community of scholars of early modern Japan.There is an interdisciplinary journal, electronic discussion list and bibliographies
Trading Places:The East India Company and Asia 1600-1834
‘virtual’ version of an exhibition of 2002, focusing on trading contacts between European and Asian countries from 1600 (British Library)
Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia
Online seminar to accompany the exhibition of the same name; covers the development and activities of the Company (Anthony Farrington)
Encounters: the meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800
website for an outstanding 2004 exhibition; beautiful, includes images of some of the key exhibits, resources for educators, quizzes and other activities, bibliography and links (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era
Online exhibition: historical background, timeline, information on construction, design, use of carpets and rugs, images and descriptions of examples, resources including bibliography; activities for schools (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Kingship in the Early Modern World
An online seminar comparing Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain and the kingdom of Vijayanagara in southern India (M Rodriguez-Salgado and J-P Rubies)
Qing China (1644-1911)
Bibliography with sections including government, economy, women, urban society, missionaries ((University of California San Diego graduate students)
Re-thinking eighteenth-century China
forum debating and questioning the conventional images of eighteenth-century China (EH.Net)
Style and Status: imperial costumes of Ottoman Turkey
an online exhibit of the sumptuous robes and fabrics of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Smithsonian Institute)
The First Asians in Britain
Online seminar exploring Asian migrants to Britain and their experiences and attitudes towards them, particularly in the eighteenth century (Rozina Visram)
Transformation from a pre-colonial to a colonial order: the case of India
Essay tracing the development of colonial trading patterns (Om Prakash)
