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)
The Bubble Project
A collaborative, interdisciplinary research project on the South Sea Bubble (which burst in 1720), focusing on its cultural history and influence on the arts, includes bibliography, essays, historical outline (David McNeil et al)
The Early Modern World
primary source extracts and web resources: sections on the early modern world system, mercantile capitalism, trade and the ‘new economy’ (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)
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)
Good turns and the art of merchandizing: conceptualising exchange in early modern England
online article by Barbara Sebek, discussing ideas and practices in commodity exchanges
from Early modern culture, 2 (2001)
Investigations of a Dog
blog by a military historian of the British Civil Wars (particularly interested in supply systems and the economic and social impacts of armies), with added interests in social and women’s history, historiography and theory (Gavin Robinson)
A nation of shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s
Website of a 2001 Bodleian exhibition, focusing on the development of printed trade cards and similar materials, with many images of examples (Bodleian Library)
North American Fur Trade
Plenty of useful information; includes sections on languages of the fur trade, women in the trade and the beaver hat (White Oak Society)
Renaissance Exploration and Trade
part of an on-line exhibit on the Renaissance (Annenberg/CPB Project)
Trade Products in Early Modern Europe
Cloves, cod, coffee, porcelain, potato, sugar, tea… a delightful site that grew out of a seminar on ‘the Expansion of Europe’ (James Ford Bell Library)
Transformation from a pre-colonial to a colonial order: the case of India
Essay tracing the development of colonial trading patterns (Om Prakash)
