East India Company V1
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East India Company V1

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East India Company V1

About this book

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence.Volume I, Sir William Foster's England'sQuest of Eastern Trade, examines the English investigation of trade routes to the East in the sixteenth century, and contains a scholarly and vivid account, not only of the foundation of the East India Company in 1599-1600, but also of its subsequent growth in the seventeenth century.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781000557794
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

INDEX

  • Abbas, Shah, 296–8, 300, 302–4, 307–308
  • Abdullah Khan, 18, 22, 26, 28–9, 30–33
  • Abulfeda, 92
  • Achin, 131, 149, 156–7, 237, 244–5
    • King of, 162, 244
  • Adams, William, 217–24
  • Aden, 185, 186, 194, 196
    • Turkish Governor of, 189
  • Advance frigate, 331
  • Agate, 314
  • Agra, 98, 179–80, 188, 190, 238–9, 315–16
    • Jesuits at, 176, 179, 188, 192, 239–40
  • Ahmadabad, 282, 314, 316
  • Ahmadnagar, 317
  • Aid, ship, 54
  • Ajmer, 182, 242, 282, 298
  • Akbar, the Emperor, 92, 98, 179, 182, 185
    • Midnall visits, 176
    • death of, 176
  • Ala-uddin Shah, 156–7
  • Alcock, Thomas, 31
  • Aldworth, Thomas, 235, 237–41
  • Aleppo, 14, 56, 71, 80, 83, 90, 93, 107, 174–5, 181–2
  • Alexandria, 14, 71
  • Allahabad, 100
  • Allen, Richard, 139
  • Aloes-wood, 212
  • Alum, 32
  • Amadas, Philip, 138
  • Amber, 71
  • Amboina, 166, 253–6, 258, 260, 262, 277
  • Amoy, 330–33
  • Andrade, Ruy Freire de, 308–10
  • Antheuniszoon, Lucas, 209–15
  • Antongil Bay, 155
  • Antonio, Don, 94
  • Antwerp, Truce of, 200, 277
  • Ararat, Mount, 85
  • Archangel, 17
  • Ardebil, 37,...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Series Page
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Introduction
  7. Editors’ Preface to the Series
  8. Table of Contents
  9. Maps
  10. Preface
  11. Half-Title Page
  12. I. Willoughby and Chancellor seek Cathay
  13. II. Jenkinson’s Journeys into Central Asia and Persia
  14. III. Attempts to Trade with Persia through Russia
  15. IV. The Explorations of Frobisher towards the North-West
  16. V. Drake reaches the Moluccas. Fenton makes a similar Attempt
  17. VI. The Establishment of the Levant Company
  18. VII. Newbery finds his Way to Hormuz and returns through Persia
  19. VIII. Newbery reaches India
  20. IX. Fitch’s Travels in India and Pegu
  21. X. Davis seeks the North-West Passage
  22. XI. The Two Voyages of Cavendish
  23. XII. Lancaster penetrates to the East Indies by the Cape Route
  24. XIII. Wood attempts to reach China
  25. XIV. The Foundation of the East India Company
  26. XV. The Company’s First Voyage
  27. XVI. The Company’s Second Voyage
  28. XVII. Midnall travels through Persia to India
  29. XVIII. The Company’s Ships reach Arabia and India
  30. XIX. Keeling and David Middleton in the Bandas
  31. XX. The Trade is extended to the Coromandel Coast and to Siam
  32. XXI. The Establishment of English Trade with Japan
  33. XXII. Further Attempts to find a Passage by the North
  34. XXIII. A Footing is obtained in Western India
  35. XXIV. Factories in Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Celebes
  36. XXV. Jourdain visits Amboina and Ceram
  37. XXVI. The Struggle in the Bandas
  38. XXVII. The Triumph of the Hollanders
  39. XXVIII. The Mission of Roe to the Great Mogul
  40. XXIX. Commerce with the Red Sea Ports
  41. XXX. The Foundation of the Persian Trade
  42. XXXI. The Consolidation of the Trade with Persia
  43. XXXII. Developments in India
  44. XXXIII. The Establishment of Trade with China
  45. Bibliographical Notes
  46. Index