TY - JOUR
T1 - French-Asian Connections
T2 - The Compagnies des Indes, France's Eastern Trade, and New Directions in Historical Scholarship
AU - Gottmann, Felicia
N1 - Funding information: This article was written as part of the University of Warwick's ‘Europe's Asian Centuries: Trading Eurasia 1600–1830’ project funded by the European Research Council.
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - With the recent rise in global history as a discipline, early modern Europe's Asian trade has become a new focus of interest. In French historiography, however, this still remains marginalized. Some studies of the French East India Companies and the French presence in Asia exist, but the impact of this on metropolitan France remains woefully underexplored. This article outlines the history and historiography of the French East India Companies and their wider role and importance, outlining pathways of both existing, current, and possible future research.
AB - With the recent rise in global history as a discipline, early modern Europe's Asian trade has become a new focus of interest. In French historiography, however, this still remains marginalized. Some studies of the French East India Companies and the French presence in Asia exist, but the impact of this on metropolitan France remains woefully underexplored. This article outlines the history and historiography of the French East India Companies and their wider role and importance, outlining pathways of both existing, current, and possible future research.
U2 - 10.1017/S0018246X13000022
DO - 10.1017/S0018246X13000022
M3 - Article
SN - 0018-246X
VL - 56
SP - 537
EP - 552
JO - The Historical Journal
JF - The Historical Journal
IS - 2
ER -