France was one of the two most important Western powers in the eighteenth century, and was home to one of the three major European East India companies. Yet the

Sino-French Trade at Canton, 1698–1842 presents a rare and lively view of the French experience at Canton, and calls for a reappraisal of France’s role in t

Paul A. Van Dyke’s new book, Whampoa and the Canton Trade: Life and Death in a Chinese Port, 1700–1842, authoritatively corrects misconceptions about how th

In the wake of the Seven Years' War and the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent, the French monarchy chartered a new East India Company. The Nouv

It is not often recognized that China was one of the few places in the early modern world where all merchants had equal access to the market. This study shows t