Description: Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established scholars as well as new, to provide a full comparative and connective study of this trade.
Review Quotes: "It documents an important and laudable scholarly effort to up-date, advance and channel historical research on the impact of maritime trade and exchange between Europe and Asia in the early modern period in new and exciting directions ... . It is a generally successful collective work and should be welcomed and engaged with. ... Goods from the East does succeed in updating, advancing and channeling our historical research on those topics." (George Bryan Souza, International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 28 (3), August, 2016)