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The HSE School of History was established in 2015 on the basis of the HSE faculty of history. The School's staff brings together leading scientists in various fields of historical knowledge who are widely known and respected in Russia and the international academic community. The School’s instructors are leading historians are authors of numerous books and articles, regular participants in major international scientific forums and research projects, and are also known as popularizers of historical knowledge. The HSE School of History actively cooperates with leading foreign universities and research centers, and organizes international scientific conferences, symposia, and colloquiums.
Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2023.
Misiak M., Butovskaya M., Sorokowski P.
Food Quality and Preference. 2024. Vol. 114.
In bk.: Picturing Russian Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Ch. 6. P. 66-73.
Kolesnik A., Rusanov A.
Working Papers of Humanities. WP. Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2021. No. 205.
Abstract. The French East India Company (CFIO) established territories along India’s Coromandel Coast beginning in 1674, from where it tapped into thriving Indian textile industries to expand its position in global maritime trading circuits. Until the CFIO’s debilitating defeat during the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), it proved a major competitor against the British East India Company in the bid for India and in the race for global trading hegemony during the eighteenth-century transition from mercantilism to liberalism. This paper examines the significance of Indian textiles within varying contexts of exchange, arguing that they fed the early modern globalization of both economies and tastes. These textiles, popular among aristocrats because of their association with rarity and Asian exoticism at large, were simultaneously traded in bulk with Africa to fund France’s involvement in the Atlantic slave trade. Using treatises on Indian textile production, trade and commission records, and representations of textiles in their settings of use, I examine how processes of exchange within global networks of the long-eighteenth century vested these textiles with contradictory meanings, while also calling attention to the malleable social life of these trade goods in their specific contexts of reception.
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