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- Title
The English East India Company's Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750–1850: Economy, Empire and Business.
- Authors
Lally, Jagjeet
- Abstract
Because silk has widely been considered a luxury commodity, early modern trade in silk and the silk industry have received comparably less attention from business and economic historians than cotton or wool. Silk was a commodity produced to a particularly well-regarded quality in Italy and the Levant and utilized by British weavers, and thus mercantilist concerns also underpinned the EEIC's silk enterprise. The book's first four chapters cover what may seem familiar ground to those of us who have studied the Bengal silk sector and the EEIC's involvement within it but will be valuable for nonexperts, for they provide a detailed contextualization of the study.
- Subjects
ENGLISH East India Company's Silk Enterprise in Bengal 1750-1850, The (Book); SILK; BUSINESS enterprises; SILK production; EMPLOYEE transfers; SILK industry
- Publication
Business History Review, 2022, Vol 96, Issue 1, p206
- ISSN
0007-6805
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1017/S0007680522000150