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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