1st Edition
Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650 Reading Debates over Risk and Reward
By Julia Schleck
Copyright 2024
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. Arguments over the staggering loss of lives and national resources and struggles over control of the new trade in luxuries reveal the forging of rationales justifying... Read more
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.
Biography
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).
"Julia Schleck’s novelty, lies in 'the strategic deployment of both knowledge and ignorance as weapons...' by the different parties" - Alejandra Irigoin, Ler Historia
