Europe's Asian Centuries: Trading Eurasia 1600-1830
University of Warwick September 2010 - August, 2014
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This is a 4-year European Research Council project which brings global perspectives and interdisciplinary methods to bear on histories of industrialization, consumer society and material culture. It investigates the key connector that transformed the early modern world: the long-distance trade between Asia and Europe in material goods and culture.
That trade stimulated Europe's consumer and industrial revolutions, re-orientating the Asian trading world to European priorities. The twenty-first century has seen a new Asian ascendancy: Europe has lost those manufacturing catalysts of textiles, ceramics and metal goods back to Asia.
This project seeks to understand Europe's new challenge of Asia by charting the history of that first global shift between the pre-modern and modern worlds.
The project will engage the Principal Investigator, Professor Maxine Berg, three postdoctoral fellows (3.5 years each), a PhD student (3
years) and a museums consultant in a comparative study of Europe's trade with India and China in quality textiles, porcelain and other fine manufactured objects. The researchers will draw on the records of Europe's East India companies, records of private traders, and major museum collections, and conduct comparative case studies including the English, Dutch, French and Scandinavian companies.
The postdoctoral fellows sought for the project will have PhDs in History or a related discipline, good English language skills and a good reading knowledge of one of the following European languages: French, Dutch and Danish/Swedish. The PhD student sought will work under the supervision of Maxine Berg on an aspect of the English East India Company.
https://secure.admin.warwick.ac.uk/webjobs/jobs/research/job13285.html
This is a 4-year European Research Council project which brings global perspectives and interdisciplinary methods to bear on histories of industrialization, consumer society and material culture. It investigates the key connector that transformed the early modern world: the long-distance trade between Asia and Europe in material goods and culture.
That trade stimulated Europe's consumer and industrial revolutions, re-orientating the Asian trading world to European priorities. The twenty-first century has seen a new Asian ascendancy: Europe has lost those manufacturing catalysts of textiles, ceramics and metal goods back to Asia.
This project seeks to understand Europe's new challenge of Asia by charting the history of that first global shift between the pre-modern and modern worlds.
The project will engage the Principal Investigator, Professor Maxine Berg, three postdoctoral fellows (3.5 years each), a PhD student (3
years) and a museums consultant in a comparative study of Europe's trade with India and China in quality textiles, porcelain and other fine manufactured objects. The researchers will draw on the records of Europe's East India companies, records of private traders, and major museum collections, and conduct comparative case studies including the English, Dutch, French and Scandinavian companies.
The postdoctoral fellows sought for the project will have PhDs in History or a related discipline, good English language skills and a good reading knowledge of one of the following European languages: French, Dutch and Danish/Swedish. The PhD student sought will work under the supervision of Maxine Berg on an aspect of the English East India Company.