Julia Schleck

Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650

Reading Debates over Risk and Reward

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Produktbeschreibung

Centered on moral critiques of wealth and the unequal distribution of risks and rewards in the lengthy voyages required by the East Indies trade, this book examines the debates surrounding England's earliest global trading ventures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9789463727198
• ISBN-10: 9463727191
• Artikelnr.: 70006415

Autorenporträt

Dr. Julia Schleck is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She is the author of Telling True Tales of Islamic Lands: Forms of Mediation in Early English Travel Writing, 1575-1630 (2011) and Dirty Knowledge: Academic Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Wasting Mariners: Kayll vs Digges
Chapter 2 - Justifying Wealth: Arguments over Control of the Trade
Chapter 3 - Contending with the Ocean: Battles over Private Trade
Chapter 4 - Desiring Servants: Liaisons Abroad
Conclusion
Bibliography.