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SILK AND TEA IN THE NORTH - HANNA HODACS GEBUNDEN

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.

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