This booklinks the trade of the Danish and Swedish East India companies to the Britishtaste for tea, a Scandinavian craving for colourful Chinese silk textiles,import substitutions schemes and natural history in the eighteenth century.
This booklinks the trade of the Danish and Swedish East India companies to the Britishtaste for tea, a Scandinavian craving for colourful Chinese silk...
It asks why people valued gems, how they determined the value of a given gem, and how the value of a gem was connected to its perceived place of origin.
It asks why people valued gems, how they determined the value of a given gem, and how the value of a gem was connected to its perceived place of origi...
