Hanna Hodacs: 1 book
Silk and Tea in the North
Scandinavian Trade and the Market for Asian Goods in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
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...
