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This book links the trade of the Danish and Swedish East India companies to the British taste for tea, a Scandinavian craving for colourful Chinese silk textiles, import substitutions schemes and natural history in the eighteenth century. It is a global history exploring the exchange of silver for goods in Canton. It is also a European history studying the wholesale market for Asian goods in Gothenburg and Copenhagen, the formation of taste and the impact of fashion in the blending of tea and the assortments of colours on wrought silk destined for markets across Europe. Linking material history to political economy and the histories of science, this book ends on the threshold of the nineteenth century, the rise of the second British Empire in Asia, and the creation of synthetic dyes in Europe.

History. --- Asia --- Europe --- Civilization --- Labor --- Asian History. --- European History. --- Cultural History. --- Labor History. --- Tea --- Silk --- History --- East India Company --- Commerce --- Camellia sinensis --- Camellia thea --- Camellia theifera --- Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading into the East Indies --- United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies --- English East India Company --- East India Company (English) --- East India Tea Company --- East-India Companie --- United East India Company --- Compagnie des Indes orientales d'Angleterre --- Compagnie unie de marchands d'Angleterre commerçans aux Indes orientales --- Tung Yin-tu kung ssu --- Honourable East-India Company --- Sharikat al-Hind al-Sharqīyah al-Barīṭānīyah --- Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy --- Kumpanī-i Hind-i Sharqī --- کمپنى هند شرقى --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Council of Europe countries --- English Company Trading to the East-Indies --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Animal fibers --- Textile fabrics --- Camellias --- Asia-History. --- Europe-History. --- Civilization-History. --- Labor-History. --- Asia—History. --- Europe—History. --- Civilization—History. --- Labor—History. --- Īsṭa Iṇḍiyā Kampanī

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Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new interpretation of the development of the English East India Company between 1660 and 1720. The book explores the connections between scholarship, patronage, diplomacy, trade, and colonial settlement in the early modern world. Links of patronage between cosmopolitan writers and collectors and scholars associated with the Royal Society of London and the universities are investigated. Winterbottom shows how innovative works of scholarship – covering natural history, ethnography, theology, linguistics, medicine, and agriculture - were created amid multi-directional struggles for supremacy in Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. The role of non-elite actors including slaves in transferring knowledge and skills between settlements is explored in detail.

History - General --- History & Archaeology --- Knowledge, Sociology of --- Learning and scholarship --- Collectors and collecting --- Authors and patrons --- South Asia --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History --- History. --- East India Company --- Royal Society (Great Britain) |x History. --- East Asia --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life. --- Relations --- Literary patronage --- Maecenatism --- Patronage of literature --- Sponsorship of literature --- Collectibles --- Collecting --- Collection and preservation --- Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) --- Sociology of knowledge --- Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading into the East Indies --- United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies --- English East India Company --- East India Company (English) --- East India Tea Company --- East-India Companie --- United East India Company --- Compagnie des Indes orientales d'Angleterre --- Compagnie unie de marchands d'Angleterre commerçans aux Indes orientales --- Tung Yin-tu kung ssu --- Honourable East-India Company --- Sharikat al-Hind al-Sharqīyah al-Barīṭānīyah --- Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy --- Kumpanī-i Hind-i Sharqī --- کمپنى هند شرقى --- Asia, East --- Asia, Eastern --- East (Far East) --- Eastern Asia --- Far East --- English Company Trading to the East-Indies --- Orient --- Art patronage --- Literary patrons --- Literature and state --- Art --- Hobbyists --- Communication --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Public opinion --- Sociology --- Social epistemology --- History, Modern. --- World history. --- Great Britain-History. --- Europe-History-1492-. --- Imperialism. --- History of Science. --- Modern History. --- World History, Global and Transnational History. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- History of Early Modern Europe. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Universal history --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- World history --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Great Britain—History. --- Europe—History—1492-. --- Royal Society (Great Britain) --- Royal society --- Īsṭa Iṇḍiyā Kampanī