Module Reading
Indicative Primary Sources
Electronic Resources
- Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmith-Kress Collection on line
- Eighteenth-Century Collections Online.
- Empire Online
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)