Module Reading

Indicative Primary Sources

Electronic Resources

Reading

Francois Bernier, Travels in the Mughal Empire. 1656-1668 (ed. &translated by Archibald Constable, 1891)
Biswas, Kalipada, 1950 , The Original Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks Relating to the Foundation of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta (Calcutta: Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal)
Stephen H. Gregg, ed., Empire and Identity. An Eighteenth-Century Sourcebook (Paper, Palgrave, 2005)
J.L. Cranmer-Byng, An Embassy to China. being the Journal kept by Lord Macartney during his Embassy to the Emperor Ch’ien-lung 1793-1794 (London, 1962)
Sir George Staunton, An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China (Dublin 1793)
Warren R. Dawson, the Banks Letters. A Calendar of the Manuscript Correspondence (London. British Museum, 1958)
H.B. Morse, The Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China 1635-1834 , 5 vols.(Oxford, 1926),
The Letters of Pere d’Entrecolles’. translated by Robert Tichane in Robert Tichane, Ching-te-chen. Views of a Porcelain City (Painted Post, NY), 1983
William Alexander and George Henry Mason, Costume of China (London, 1800)
The Private Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai (12 vols). 1730-80
Frances Buchanan. A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar, 3 vols. London 1807

Indicative Secondary Sources

David Arnold, ‘Agriculture and ‘Improvement’ in Early Colonial India: a pre-history of development’, Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 5, no. 4, Oct. 2005, p. 505-525
C.A. Bayly, Rulers, townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion 1770-1870 (Cambridge, 1983)
C.A. Bayly, Imperial Meridian. The British Empire and the World 1780-1830 (1989)
Maxine Berg, ‘In Pursuit of Luxury: Global Origins of British Consumers’, Past and Present, 182, Feb. 2004, pp. 85-142
Maxine Berg ‘Britain, Industry and Perceptions of China: Matthew Boulton, ‘[Useful Knowledge’ and the Macartney Embasssy to China 1792-4’, Journal of Global History (2006)
Huw Bowen, The Business of empire. The East India Company and imperial Britain 1765-1833 (Cambridge, 2006)
K.N. Chaudhuri, Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean (Cambridge, 1985)
K.N. Chaudhuri, The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company 1660-1760 (Cambridge, 1978)
K.N. Chaudhuri, Asia before Europe. Economy and Society of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750 (Cambridge, 1990)
S. Chaudhury and M. Morineau, Merchants, Companies and Trade (1999)
Carlo Cipolla, Guns, Sails and Empires. Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion, 1400-1700 (1992)
Linda Colley, Captives
Philip D. Curtin, Cross Cultural Trade in World History (Cambridge, 1984)
A.R. Disney, Twilight of the Pepper Empire (Cambridge, 1978)
Natacha Eaton, ‘Between mimesis and alterity: art, gift and diplomacy in colonial India, 1770-1800’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 46 (2004), pp. 816-844
Robert Finlay, ‘The Pilgrim Art: the Culture of Porcelain in World History’, Journal of World History, 9 (1993), pp. 141-188
Natasha Glaisyer, ‘Networking: Trade and Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire’, Historical Journal, 14 (2004), pp. 451-476
Holden Furber, Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800 (Minneapolis: 1976)
Conrad Gill, Merchants and Mariners of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1961)
G. Godden, Oriental Export Market Porcelain
Stuart Gordon, When Asia was the World (Yale, 2007)
Wang Gungwu, ‘Merchants without empire: the Hokkien sojourning communities’ in James L. Hevia, Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 (Durham, NC and London, 1995)
John Irwin and K.B. Brett, Origins of Chintz (London, 1970). Contains eighteenth-century accounts of cotton dyeing and printing in India by Rhyiner, Father Coeurdoux and William Roxborough
Maya Jasanoff, ‘Collectors of Empire’, Past and Present, 184 (2004)
Rose Kerr and Nigel Wood, Ceramic Technology. Science and Civilization in China, vol. 5 part 12.
Lothar Ledderose, Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art (Princeton, 2000)
David Mackay, In the Wake of Cook: Exploration, Science and Empire, 1780-1801 (London, 1985)
Peter Marshall, The Making and Unmaking of Empire (OUP, 2005)
P.J. Marshall, The Eighteenth Century in Indian History. Revolution or Evolution? (OUP 2005)
Hoh-Cheung & Lorna H. Mui, ‘Smuggling and the British Tea Trade before 1784’, American Historical Review 74, 1968
Hoh-Chung & Lorna H. Mui, Shops and Shopkeeping in Eighteenth-Century England (London, 1989)
Ho-cheun Mui and Lorna H. Mui, The management of monopoly. A study of the East India Company’s conduct of its tea trade, 1784-1833 (Vancouver, 1984)
Chandra Mukerji, From Graven Images: Patterns of Modern Materialism (1983)
P. Parthasarathi, ‘Rethinking wages and competitiveness in the eighteenth century’, Past and Present, 158 (198), pp. 79-109.
P. Parthasarathi, The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800 (Cambridge, 2001)
M.N. Pearson, Spices in the Indian Ocean World
M.N. Pearson, The World of the Indian Ocean 1500-1800 (Ashgate 2005)
Anne Pérotin-Dumon, ‘The pirate and the emperor: power and the law on the seas, 1450-1850’ in James D. Tracy, The Political Economy of Merchant Empires (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 196-227.
Om Prakash, ‘Spices and the Spice trade’, Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Vol 5
Geoff Quilley, ‘Signs of Commerce: The East India Company and the Patronage of Eighteenth-Century British Art’, in H.V. Bowen et. al, The Worlds of the East India Company
Antony Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, c. 1450-1680, 2 vols. (New Haven, Yale U. Press, 1988-93)
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Explorations in Connected History (OUP India 2005)
Tirtankhar Roy, eds., Cloth and Commerce: Textiles and colonial India (New Delhi, 1996)
James D. Tracy, The Rise of Merchant Empires (Cambridge, 1990
George D. Winius & Marcus P.M. Vink, The Merchant Warrior Pacified. The VOC and its Changing Political Economy in India (Oxford paper, 1994)