Pim de Zwart examines the Dutch East India Company s intercontinental trade and its effects on living standards in various regions on the edges of the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Contrary to conventional views, De Zwart finds significant evidence of the integration...

Introduction : luxury textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and neighbouring territories (fourteenth to sixteenth centuries) : a conceptual investigation / Bart Lambert and Katherine Anne Wilson -- Consumption of luxury textiles. 'In a chamber, in a garderobe, in a chest' : the possession and...