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Art, Trade, and Imperialism in Early Modern French India
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French mercantile endeavors in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India were marked by novel intersections of aesthetics, science, and often violent commercialism. Connecting all of these worlds were the thriving textile industries of India's Coromandel Coast. This book focuses on the integration of the Coromandel textile industries with French colonies in India from the founding of the French East India Company in 1664 to its debilitating defeat by the British during the Seven Years' War. Narratives of British trade and colonialism have long dominated eighteenth-century histories of India, overshadowing the French East India Company's far-reaching sphere of influence and its significant integration into the political and cultural worlds of South India. As this study shows, the visual and material cultures of eighteenth-century France and India were deeply connected, and together shaped the century's broader debates about mercantilism, liberalism, and the global trade of goods, ideas, and humans.
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Yes, you can access Art, Trade, and Imperialism in Early Modern French India by Liza Oliver in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & Early Modern History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Early Modern HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Transliteration and Translation
- Currency Conversion
- Abbreviations
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The Threads that Bind: South Asian Textiles and Networks of Exchange between India, France, and the West Indies
- 2. Uncommon Ground: Coromandel Craft, European Natural History, and Lessons in Mutual Intelligibility
- 3. Shifting Terrains: Negotiating Kingship as a Tamil Dubash in Eighteenth-century Pondichéry
- 4. Faith and Fortunes: The Use and Abuse of Material Artifacts in the Evolving Coromandel
- Epilogue: Cross-currents in the Wake of the Seven Years' War
- Glossary
- French Governors of Pondichéry
- Bibliography
- Index