Early Modern Resources

Essay on early years and development of the East India Company (Chris Godat) (pdf)

Essay about the East India Company at the BBC website (Peter Marshall)

online collection of more than 15,800 maps, focusing on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps, with historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa (Cartography Associates)

essay attempting to ‘place India (or South Asia) within its own context in the early modern world’ (John Richards)

Bibliography (Lee Makela)

An interdisciplinary international community of scholars of early modern Japan.There is an interdisciplinary journal, electronic discussion list and bibliographies

‘virtual’ version of an exhibition of 2002, focusing on trading contacts between European and Asian countries from 1600 (British Library)

Online seminar to accompany the exhibition of the same name; covers the development and activities of the Company (Anthony Farrington)

website for a 2004 exhibition; beautiful, includes images of some of the key exhibits, resources for educators, quizzes and other activities, bibliography and links (Victoria and Albert Museum)

An online seminar comparing Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain and the kingdom of Vijayanagara in southern India (M Rodriguez-Salgado and J-P Rubies)

forum debating and questioning the conventional images of eighteenth-century China (EH.Net)

an online exhibit of the sumptuous robes and fabrics of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Smithsonian Institute)

Online seminar exploring Asian migrants to Britain and their experiences and attitudes towards them, particularly in the eighteenth century (Rozina Visram)