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Page numbers in italic indicate figures and tables. Thus 262f102 refers to figure 102 on page 262. Thus 106–111t4.1 refers to table 4, which spreads across pages 106–111. Thus 262f102 refers to figure 102 on page 262. alcoholic beverages ships arriving in Essequibo and brandy and wine traded between ­Demerara 1700–1799, 217–218, 217t8.1 Bordeaux and Boston during the French See also American War of Independence Wars 255–256, 270 (1775–1783); asientos; Cadiz; Dutch West brandy smuggled to Britain via India Company (wic); Essequibo and 241 Demerara; French Wars; Ruiz, Simon; slave exchanged for pirates’ booty and slaves 146 Austrian Empire rum 146, 218, 222, 233 prohibition on trade with Asia from the and trade in Brazilian ports 61, 62, 65 Alonso, Martin 14 as a key factor in the formation of American War of Independence (1775–1783) seic’s market niche 239, 240–242, and the decline in the transatlantic slave 251, 251–252 trade 223–224, 261n21, 262f10.2 and the Company 189, 239, Dutch as arms suppliers to North Ameri- 240, 242 can rebels 218 Southern of effect on seic trade during 243, 249 subject to 168 and French West Indian trade 255–256 and Andalusian commerce 177, 179 Amerindians 226–227 Axelrod, Robert 32n89 Ansell, Christopher K. 27 Antunes, Cátia 98 Batavia asientos as a French puppet state, the Batavian and “licencias de saca” 23–24, 23n47 Republic 219 Portuguese monopolization of 46–47, Jean Abraham Grill’s private investment in 51–52 Cantonese trade with 247 Simon Ruiz’s interaction with 13, Portuguese as the language of merchants 23–24, 26, 30, 35 in 1 Atlantic trade trade to the and the 1559 European economic and English control of crisis 22 Bengal 201–202 American shipping to Bordeaux 266– Governor of the Coast’s 272, 267f10.6A 268f10.6B monopoly on 196 cooperation with partners outside of and voc private trade 197, 199–203 natural groups 67, 67n86, 226–227 Battle of Plassey 207, 209–210, 244–246 dependence of early modern American Bengal colonies on smuggling 91 and the Battle of Plassey 207, 209–210, Gradis family of Bordeaux 265, 265n27, 244–246 271–272, 274 tax revenues and profits ­collected mercantilist logic of 238 by the eic and private British and Porto merchants 26 merchants 244–245

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Benton, Lauren A. 215 Chaudhuri, K.N. 192–193 Bethencourt, Francisco 279 Cheney, Paul 258 Bourdieu Chollet & Bourdieu 265 China Bowen, H.V. 189, 193 Chinese Junk trade, and trade in Boyajian, James, C 23 Batavia 247 brandy and wine. See alcoholic beverages Chinese pirate Zheng Jing’s control of bribery Fujian 116n65, 121 of company officials 56, 64 and the eic of Portuguese royal officials inspecting intra-Asian trade 198–199, 244–245 slave vessels 64–65 pepper trade 188, 198–199, 199n38 related to the establishment and gover- use of bills of exchange 192–193, 199, nance of an empire 207–208 245 See also gifts and gift exchange Japanese smuggling cases 95f4.1, 96–97, business partners selection, choice of individ- 98 uals outside of natural groups, by private Maritime Prohibitions of Ming-Qing entrepreneurs 63–64, 66–67, 67n86 China 88 and the Ostend Company 239 Cadiz private merchants in Nagasaki 90, 92–93 first hospital in Spain founded in 172 and the copper trade 96 as an international commercial Suetsugu Heizō’s illicit trade 114–120, hub 166–169, 184–188, 187f6.1 121 maritime commerce between Amsterdam seic trade in Canton and Macao and Cadiz 182–186, 187f6.1 seic agents on the spot 246–251 and the art market 179–180 tea exports 241 and the Fourchoudt family 179 silver as a requirement for trade protection of Flemish trade during the with 23–24, 192, 245, 249 Spanish War of Succession 170 dac financing via bills of as the official seat of the Carrera de exchange 246n18 Indias­ 160, 167–169, 180–182, 184 Swedish private trade in Canton and and seic use of silver to trade with Macao 246–251 Asia 243 tribute at the core of power relations Southern Low Countries in 168–169, in 88 173–174, 177 See also tea trade Campbell, Gwyn 147n38 Christian networks 10 chartered monopolies New Christians Danish Asiatic Company (dac) 189, 240, Ruiz’s representative Geronimo 245–246, 246n18 Lindo 35 distinguished from royal monopolies 7 Ruiz’s representatives Filipe Jorge and excluded from the Gold Coast by the Diego Pardo 24 Habsburg takeover 58–59 and the transatlantic slave trade 26, the Ostend Company 189, 239, 240, 242 50–56 and private businessmen, named as coffee trade contratadores 45–47 and the commercialisation of colo- of England nial products during the eighteenth (rac) 61–62, 63 century 178 See also Dutch (voc); European coffee imports, and the reorga- (wic); East nization of international shipping during India Company (eic); Swedish East India the French Wars 262, 263f10.3, 264, Company (seic) 264f10.6

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