Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established scholars as well as new, to provide a full comparative and connective study of this trade.

About the Author

Maxine Berg is Professor of History at the University of Warwick, UK, where she has taught since 1978. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy, Founder and Co-Director of the Global History and Culture Centre at Warwick, and was Senior Researcher for the European Research Council. Her recent books include Writing the History of the Global: Challenges for the Twenty-first Century (2013) and Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2005).

Reviews
"It documents an important and laudable scholarly effort to up-date, advance and channel historical research on the impact of maritime trade and exchange between Europe and Asia in the early modern period in new and exciting directions ... . It is a generally successful collective work and should be welcomed and engaged with. ... Goods from the East does succeed in updating, advancing and channeling our historical research on those topics." (George Bryan Souza, International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 28 (3), August, 2016)

Book Information
ISBN 9781137403933
Author Maxine Berg
Format Hardback
Page Count 369
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan