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<p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Sharpe, Pamela</span> <xhtml:em>Gender at sea: women and the East India Company in seventeenth-century London.</xhtml:em> In: Women, work and wages in England, 1600 - 1850. . The Boydell Press, Suffolk, UK, pp. 47-67. ISBN 1843830779</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2767/1/Gender_at__sea.pdf"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2767/1/Gender_at__sea.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Full text restricted - Requires a PDF viewer<br />780Kb</td><td><form method="get" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/request_doc"><input accept-charset="utf-8" value="3900" name="docid" type="hidden" /><div class=""><input value="Request a copy" name="_action_null" class="ep_form_action_button" onclick="return EPJS_button_pushed( '_action_null' )" type="submit" /> </div></form></td></tr></table><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">Journalistic comment on the recent anti-globalization protests make the
assumption that multinational trade, where companies take on some of
the functions of nations, is a modern phenomenon. Yet the East India
Companies of the various states of the seventeenth century present some
similar circumstances, and the English East India Company has recently
celebrated its 400th anniversary. As the major historian of the English East
India Company, Chaudhuri, put it: 'In many ways, the East India Company
was the direct ancestor of the modern giant. 'business firm, handling a
multitude of trading products and operating in an international setting.'!
The East India Company traded on the seas -the pre-eminent commercial
realm of the early modern period -but also their operations included
quasi-banking functions, property management and a role in the relief of . poverty.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Book Chapter</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/420200.html">420000 Language and Culture > 420200 Literature Studies</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/420000.html">420000 Language and Culture</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">2767</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Scholarly Publications Librarian</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 08:53</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 08:53</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=2767;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=2767">item control page</a></p>
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