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Søren Mentz. The English Gentleman Merchant at Work: Madras and the City of London, 16601740. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005. 304 pp. ISBN 87-7289-909-3, $25.00 (paper).
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As the title aptly notes, in The English Gentleman Merchant at Work Søren Mentz explores merchant connections between India and London from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth century. In particular, the book explores the organization of private trade by East India Company personnel operating from Madras on the Coromandel coast of India. Mentz argues that these trades should not be seen as merely part of an already existing Indian/Asian trade but rather as
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