A North Europe World of Tea: Scotland and the Tea Trade, c.1690–c.1790

Mackillop, Andrew

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“…Scots were known for their taste for the more expensive Congo, originating in Gothenburg (Janes, 2016(Janes, , pp. 230-232, 2020Mackillop, 2015). SEIC's teas, including the popular Congo, were known as the 'Gotteburgh Teas', the brand name established already in the 1750s.…”

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“…That smuggling to Britain was a common practice is, however, well-known (Cole, 1958;Kent, 1973, pp. 112-129;Müller, 2003Müller, , 2018Mackillop, 2015;Janes, 2016Janes, , 2020. We would therefore not necessarily trust the geographical disaggregation of the Swedish official statistics regarding re-exported Asian goods (Nyström, 1883), as re-exports that officially were reported to be destined for one marketsay the Netherlandsvery well might have been smuggled to the British market.…”

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Swedish East India trade in a value-added analysis, c. 1730–1800

Rönnbäck

Müller

2020

Scandinavian Economic History Review

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The narrative of the Swedish East India Company (SEIC) is a well-known part of Sweden's eighteenth century history. The company is known as a profitable venture, the only successful chartered company in Sweden, but with a limited impact upon the country's economic development. In this paper, we employ a value-chain analysis to estimate the Swedish East India trade's magnitude in terms of value-added. The results show that the success of the company was not based on monopolised domestic market in Sweden, a typical strategy of big chartered companies. The most valuable line of SEIC's business (Chinese teas) was rather based on re-exports to other countries in Europe. Our quantitative estimates also show that the Swedish East India trade eventually made up a non-negligible share, and in particular a major share of the transport and trade sectors, of the Swedish economy during a long part of the eighteenth century.

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Swedish East India trade in a value-added analysis, c. 1730–1800

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Müller

2020

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“…Indeed, one might add 'tea pot' to this list: the intersection between tea and sugar became crucial for the development of the trade in Europe by the end of the century. 41 Moreover, early modern English and Dutch contemporaries began to use sugar not only as a luxury additive to tea, coffee, or cocoa, but in distillation, preservation, and for decorative purposes. 42 Yet, this process of diversification and increased consumption of sugar by the century's end was not unique to imperial metropoles.…”

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Sugar, Slave-Owning, Suriname and the Dutch Imperial Entanglement of the Scottish Highlands before 1707

Worthington

2019

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This article uncovers the Scottish Highlands' earliest-known overseas slave-owning circle and the imperial entanglement with the Dutch Empire and its sugar on which this depended. It thus provides a case study of the transnational, Dutch-influenced nature of commerce in a non-metropolitan part of northern Europe in the later seventeenth century. The article highlights two interconnected contemporary developments: the engagement of Highland migrants or exiles in the sugar-based enslavement of African and indigenous populations in Suriname; the region's heavy reliance on the importation of sugar with origins in the Dutch Atlantic plantations. In this way, the article illuminates both north Highland agency in the oppressions of the 'triangular trade', and its merchant community's opting for Dutch over Lowland Scottishrefined sugar when supplying and encouraging local demand at that time. Taken together, this demonstrates the early enmeshment of the region in transnational 'circuits' of slave-owning and the interconnected seepage of sugar across broader sections of the northern European economy than previously considered. A Scottish Highland-led circle is shown to have grown prior to the formal creation of the British Empire, simultaneous with the commercial activity of Dutch Suriname-based sugar planter, Henry MacKintosh, who developed strong ties linking the colony with New England, Rotterdam, and his home burgh of Inverness.

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A North Europe World of Tea: Scotland and the Tea Trade, c.1690–c.1790

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Swedish East India trade in a value-added analysis, c. 1730–1800

Swedish East India trade in a value-added analysis, c. 1730–1800

Sugar, Slave-Owning, Suriname and the Dutch Imperial Entanglement of the Scottish Highlands before 1707

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