Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650

Centered on moral critiques of wealth and the unequal distribution of risks and rewards in the lengthy voyages required by the East Indies trade, this book examines the debates surrounding England's earliest global trading ventures.

Dr. Julia Schleck is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She is the author of Telling True Tales of Islamic Lands: Forms of Mediation in Early English Travel Writing, 1575-1630 (2011) and Dirty Knowledge: Academic Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism (2022).

Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1 - Wasting Mariners: Kayll vs Digges, Chapter 2 - Justifying Wealth: Arguments over Control of the Trade, Chapter 3 - Contending with the Ocean: Battles over Private Trade, Chapter 4 - Desiring Servants: Liaisons Abroad, Conclusion, Bibliography.