Erikson Emily author Bearman Peter Shawn author Columbia University. Sociology Columbia University. Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy originator contributor text Working papers New York Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University 2004 English Drawing on a remarkable data set compiled from ships' logs, journals, factory correspondence, ledgers, and reports that provide unusually precise information on each of the 4,572 voyages taken by English traders of the East India Company (hereafter EIC), the authors describe the EIC trade network over time, from 1601 to 1833. From structural images of voyages organized by shipping seasons, they map the (over time and space) emergence of dense, fully integrated, global trade networks: of globalization before globalization. The paper shows that the integration of the world trade system under the aegis of the EIC was the unintended by-product of systematic individual malfeasance (private trading) on the part of ship captains seeking profit from internal Eastern trade. Economic history Economics, Commerce-Business 04-07 http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:9691 NNC NNC 2010-08-18 14:34:50 -0400 2011-07-20 12:31:09 -0400 2065 eng