"The imperative of the long-distance seaborne trade of Europeans, from the age of exploration, was to acquire the goods of the exotic East--the silks and porcelains and tea of China, the spices of the spice islands and the textiles of India. Goods from the East focuses on the trade in fine...

This article presents the history of new goods in the eighteenth century as a part of the broader history of invention and industrialization. It focuses on product innovation in manufactured commodities as this engages with economic, technological and cultural theories. Recent theories of...

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. The market and the state -- pt. 3. Markets, merchants and middlemen -- pt. 4. Markets and urban manufacture -- pt. 5. Market production and women's work -- pt. 6. Market structures and social institutions : commerce and customary context.