Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650: Reading Debates over Risk and Reward [Paperback]

Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1 - Wasting Mariners: Kayll vs Digges, Chapter 2 - Justifying Wealth: Arguments over Control of the Trade, Chapter 3 - Contending with the Ocean: Battles over Private Trade, Chapter 4 - Desiring Servants: Liaisons Abroad, Conclusion, Bibliography.Centered on moral critiques of wealth and the unequal distribution of risks and rewards in the lengthy voyages required by the East Indies trade, this book examines the debates surrounding Englands earliest global trading ventures.Dr. Julia Schleck is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She is the author of Telling True Tales of Islamic Lands: Forms of Mediation in Early English Travel Writing, 1575-1630 (2011) and Dirty Knowledge: Academic Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism (2022).Centered on moral critiques of wealth and the unequal distribution of risks and rewards in the lengthy voyages required by the East Indies trade, this book examines the debates surrounding Englands earliest global trading ventures. Arguments over the staggering loss of lives and national resources and struggles over control of the new trade in luxuries reveal the forging of rationales justifying the new capitalist inequalities. Yet Company servants traveling abroad to conduct the risky trade resisted this newly coalescing social formation through strategic disobedience to their masters will, controlling information and promoting ignorance when it served their financial and sexual purposes. Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 16001650 interrogates the forces that shaped Englands earliest forays into capitalist imperialism by tracing the battles over corporate control of mens finances, marriages, and bare survival at the dawn of its global trade

Julia Schlecks novelty, lies in 'the strategic deployment of both knowledge and ignorance as weapons...' by the different parties -?Alejanl³.