2. Europe's Asian Centuries Trading Eurasia 1600-1830 Global History and Culture Centre Department of History - University of Warwick http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/eac/ Asian Export Ware and Industrial Revolution Asian Goods in the Political Economy of Europe Asian Goods and European Consumer Cultures Asian Goods: Making and Distributing Asian Goods and the Transmission of Knowledge Bringing global perspectives and interdisciplinary methods to bear on histories of industrialization, consumer society and material culture Investigating the long distance trade between Asia and Europe in material goods and culture that transformed the early modern world. Research People Themes Professor Maxine Berg Project Director Dr Hanna Hodacs Research Fellow Dr Chris Nierstrasz Research Fellow Dr Felicia Gottman Research Fellow Dr Helen Clifford Museum Consultant Ms Meike Fellinger PhD Student Ms Anna Guszcza Project Administrator

3. Asian Goods and European Consumer Cultures

4. Ordering lists

5. Methodology Only ordering lists of the EIC Sample of several years: 1710, 1720, 1730, 1740, 1750 A preliminary attempt to combine quantity and quality

6. Orders from Asia

7. The wheel of fashion

9. Specification of quality

11. Dimensions of cloths

12. Orders from samples

13. Conclusions Pros of our approach: Interaction between Europe and Asia from the perspective of the history of consumption Comparison with the other companies Cons of our approach: Difference between order and what was brought