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Short Bibliography

This is a very preliminary bibliography as the literature on individual factories is vast:

• G/9 Cape of Good Hope 1773-1836 24 Volumes

  • McAleer, John. 2013. "‘The Key to India’: Troop Movements, Southern Africa, and Britain's Indian Ocean World, 1795–1820." International History Review 35, no. 2: 294-316.
  • Penn, Nigel. 2013. "The British and the ‘Bushmen’: the massacre of the Cape San, 1795 to 1828." Journal of Genocide Research 15, no. 2: 183-200.
  • Bruijn, Jaap R. 1980. "BETWEEN BATAVIA AND THE CAPE: SHIPPING PATTERNS OF THE DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 11, no. 2: 251-265.
  • Ross, Robert. 1980. "THE RULE OF LAW AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY." Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History 9, no. 1: 5-16.
  • Boucher, M. 1976. "FLEMISH INTERLOPERS BEYOND THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 1715-1723." Historia 21, no. 2: 121-131.
  • Boucher, M. 1983. "PRIVATEERS AT THE CAPE IN 1744 AND 1747: INCIDENTS AND IMPLICATIONS." Historia 28, no. 2: 6-13.
  • Schutte, Gerrit, Henry Snyders, Richard Elphick, and Hermann Giliomee. 1979. "COMPANY AND COLONISTS AT THE CAPE." In Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1820, 173-210.
  • Giliomee, Hermann, and Richard Elphick. 1979. "THE STRUCTURE OF EUROPEAN DOMINATION AT THE CAPE, 1652-1820." In Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1820, 359-390.
  • Freund, William M., Richard Elphick, and Hermann Giliomee. 1979. "THE CAPE UNDER THE TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENTS, 1795-1814." In Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1820, 211-240.

• G/10 Celebes 1613-74

  • von Kispal-van Deijk, Gabrielle. "Ubiquitous but Elusive: The Chinese of Makassar in VOC Times." Journal of Asian History 47, no. 1 (January 2013): 81-103.
  • Koster, G. L. "OF TREATIES AND UNBELIEVERS: IMAGES OF THE DUTCH IN SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MALAY HISTORIOGRAPHY." Journal Of The Malaysian Branch Of The Royal Asiatic Society 78, no. 1 (June 2005): 59-96.

• G/11 Ceylon 1762-186

  • Garrett Champness Mendis, 2005. Ceylon under the British, New Delhi [u.a.] Asian Educational Services.
  • Great Britain. Foreign Office, Returns: Slave Trade, East India and Ceylon (Google eBook), 1938.

• G/12/ China and Japan, 1596-1840
These are just a few titles:

  • Hosea Ballou Morse, The Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China 1635-1834, 5 volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926.
  • VanDyke, Paul A. Canton Trade: Life & Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845. Hong Kong: Hong Kong U. Pr., 2005.
  • Shimoda, Hiraku. "Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans – By Leonard Blussé." Historian 72, no. 3 (Fall 2010): 717-718.
  • Leonard Blussé, Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans. Harvard University Press, 2009.
  • Léonard Blussé, The Dutch Encounter with Asia: 1600-1950, Rijksmuseum, 2002.
  • Koninckx, Christian. "THE MARITIME ROUTES OF THE SWEDISH EAST INDIA COMPANY DURING ITS FIRST AND SECOND CHARTER (1731-1766)." Scandinavian Economic History Review 26, no. 1 (April 1978): 36-65.
  • HESSELINK, REINIER H. "Japan-Netherlands Trade 1600-1800: The Dutch East India Company and Beyond." Journal of Japanese Studies 39, no. 2 (Summer 2013): 480-484.
  • Yasuko Suzuki, Japan-Netherlands Trade 1600-1800: The Dutch East India Company and Beyond, Kyoto University Press, 2012.
  • Anthony Farrington, The English Factory in Japan, 1613-1623, 2 vols, (London, 1991).
  • Chang Hsiu-Jung et al, The English Factory in Taiwan, 1670-1685 (Taipei, Taiwan, 1995).

• G/13 Conimere 1652-85

  • J.Talboys Wheeler, Early Records of British India: A History of the English Settlement in India, 1994.

• G/14 Cuddalore and Porto Novo, 1681-87

  • A blog about the Cuddalore http://cuddalore-history.blogspot.co.uk/2006/11/first-english-trading-at-cuddalore.html
  • Master, Streynsham. (2013). Diaries, 1675-1680, and Other Contemporary Papers Relating Thereto (Vol. 2). London: Forgotten Books. (Original work published 1911).
  • Mukund K. CASTE CONFLICT IN SOUTH INDIA IN EARLY COLONIAL PORT CITIES: 1650-1800. Studies In History February 1995; 11(1):1-27

• G/15 Dacca 1678-1779

  • Ahmed, Sharif Uddin. "Dacca: A Study in Urban History and Development." In Dacca: A Study in Urban History & Development (HIA Book Collection),1986.
  • Charney, Michael W. "RISE OF A MAINLAND TRADING STATE: RAHKAING UNDER THE EARLY MRAUK-U KINGS, C. 1430-1603." Journal Of Burma Studies 3, (November 1998): 1-33.
  • Mukherjee, Rila. "THE FRENCH EAST INDIA COMPANY'S TRADE IN EAST BENGAL FROM 1750 TO 1753: A LOOK AT THE CHANDERNAGORE LETTERS TO JUGDIA." Indian Historical Review 17, no. 1/2 (January 1990): 122-135.
  • Islam, Sirajul. "The Permanent Settlement in Bengal: A Study of Its Operation, 1790-1819." In Permanent Settlement in Bengal: A Study of Its Operation, 1790-1819, 1. n.p.: 1979.

• G/16 Dinjapur 1774-78

  • West Bengal (India), Jatindra Chandra Sengupta, West Bengal District Gazetteers: West Dinajpur by J. C. Sengupta, 1965
  • Hameeda Hossain, The Company weavers of Bengal: the East India Company and the organization of textile production in Bengal, 1750-1813,1988.
  • Betty Joseph, Reading the East India Company 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender, 2004.
  • Bankey Bihari Misra, The Central Administration of the East India Company 1773-1834, 1950.

• G/17 Egypt and Red Sea 1644-1858

  • Mukhā (Yemen), Egypt and the Red Sea, 1644-1858

• G/18 Fort St David 1690-1750

  • Madras (India), Letters from Fort St. David, 1748-1750, Volume 4, 1936.
  • Mentz, Soren, and David Hohnen. "ENGLISH PRIVATE TRADE ON THE COROMANDEL COAST, 1660-1690: DIAMONDS AND COUNTRY TRADE." Indian Economic & Social History Review 33, no. 2 (April 1996): 155-173.

• G/19 Fort St George, 1655-1758

  • Bassett, D. K. "BRITISH "COUNTRY" TRADE AND LOCAL TRADE NETWORKS IN THE THAI AND MALAY STATES, C. 1680-1770." Modern Asian Studies 23, no. 4 (July 1989): 625-643.
  • Smith, Victor T. C. "FORT GEORGE: AN EARLY POLYGONAL CITADEL ON BRIMSTONE HILL, ST KITTS IN THE WEST INDIES." Fort 20, (January 1992): 55-70.

• G/20 Hugh 1663-87
• G/21 Java 1595-1827

  • Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, Volume 1 (Google eBook), 1817.
  • Atsushi Ōta, Changes of Regime And Social Dynamics in West Java: Society, State And the Outer World of Banten, 1750-1830, 2006.

• G/22 Karwar 1666-1717

  • India Office Library, India Office Library and Records Report,1981

• G/23 Kasimbazar 1676-1759

  • Mukherjee, Rila. "THE STORY OF KASIMBAZAR: SILK MERCHANTS AND COMMERCE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INDIA." Review: A Journal Of The Fernand Braudel Center 17, no. 4 (October 1994): 499-554.

• G/24 Madapollam 1676-86

  • John Bruce, Annals of the Honorable East-India Company: From Their Establishment by the Charter of Queen Elizabeth, 1600, to the Union of the London and English East-India Companies, 1707 - 8, Volume 3 (Google eBook),1810
  • Miles Ogborn, Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company (Google eBook),2008.

• G/25 Maldah 1680-93
• G/26 Masulipatam 1622-1700
• G/27 Murshidabad 1770-79

  • Bhadra, Gautam. 1976. "SOCIAL GROUPS AND RELATIONS IN THE TOWN OF MURSHIDABAD, 1765-1793." Indian Historical Review 2, no. 2: 312-338.

• G/28 Patna, 1620-1782

  • Banerjee, KumKum. "GRAIN TRADERS AND THE EAST INDIA COMPANY: PATNA AND ITS HINTERLAND IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES." Indian Economic & Social History Review 23, no. 4 (October 1986): 403-429.

• G/30 Petapoli 1682-87
• G/31 Rajapur 1659-1660
• G/32 St Helena 1676-1836

  • Stern, Philip J. "Politics and Ideology in the Early East India Company-State: The Case of St Helena, 1673–1709." Journal Of Imperial & Commonwealth History 35, no. 1 (March 2007): 1-23.
  • Grove, Richard. "Conserving Eden: The (European) East India Companies and their environmental policies on St..." Comparative Studies In Society & History 35, no. 2 (April 1993): 318.
  • Schulenburg, Alexander Hugo. "ST. HELENA: BRITISH LOCAL HISTORY IN THE CONTEXT OF EMPIRE." Local Historian 28, no. 2 (May 1998): 108-122.
  • G/33 Siam 1679-83
  • Trakulhun, Sven. "The widening of the world and the realm of history: early European approaches to the beginnings of Siamese history, c. 1500-1700." Renaissance Studies 17, no. 3 (September 2003): 392-417.
  • Vongsuravatana, Raphaël. "GUY TACHARD OU LA MARINE FRANÇAISE DANS LES INDES ORIENTALES (1684-1701). (French)." Histoire, Économie Et Société 13, no. 2 (June 1994): 249-267.

• G/34 Straits Settlements 1769-1830

  • WEBSTER, ANTHONY. "The Development of British Commercial and Political Networks in the Straits Settlements 1800 to 1868: The Rise of a Colonial and Regional Economic Identity?." Modern Asian Studies 45, no. 4 (July 2011): 899-929.

• G/35 Sumatra 1615-1825

  • Veevers, David. "‘The Company as Their Lords and the Deputy as a Great Rajah’: Imperial Expansion and the English East India Company on the West Coast of Sumatra, 1685–1730." Journal Of Imperial & Commonwealth History 41, no. 5 (December 2013): 687-709.
  • Silva Jayasuriya, Shihan de. "East India Company in Sumatra: Cross-Cultural Interactions." African & Asian Studies 8, no. 3 (June 2009): 204-221.
  • Kerlogue, Fiona. "The Early English Textile Trade in South-East Asia: The East India Company Factory and the Textile Trade in Jambi, Sumatra, 1615-1682." Textile History 28, no. 2 (November 1997): 149-160.

• G/36 Surat 1616-1804

  • Tracy, James D. "ASIAN DESPOTISM? MUGHAL GOVERNMENT AS SEEN FROM THE DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY FACTORY IN SURAT." Journal Of Early Modern History 3, no. 3 (August 1999): 256.
  • Hasan, Farhat. "THE MUGHAL FISCAL SYSTEM IN SURAT AND THE ENGLISH EAST INDIA COMPANY." Modern Asian Studies 27, no. 4 (July 1993): 711-718.
  • Torri, Michelguglielmo. "SURAT DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: WHAT KIND OF SOCIAL ORDER?." Modern Asian Studies 21, no. 4 (July 1987): 679-710.

• G/37 Tellicherri 1716-93
• G/38 Thana 1775-93

  • DSOUZA, FLEUR. "OF TANASI AND TAFACEIRA: TEXTILE PRODUCTION AND TEXTILE TRADE OF THANE." Indica 49, no. 2 (September 2012): 103-112.

• G/39 Vizagapatam 1608-1834
• G/40 Miscellaneous 1608-1834