Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… East India Company’s relations with Indian princes, even if in 1793 it failed to oblige the Chinese emperor to open his market. 8 . Steven Bullock and Sheila McIntyre, ‘The Handsome Tokens of a Funeral; Glove-giving and the Large Funeral in … transaction. Karl Polanyi suggested a 'great transformation', from socially-embedded reciprocity, to impersonal market exchange, a process which he saw as occuring in late eighteenth-century Britain. Avner Offer has nevertheless highlighted the persistence of the non-marketised gift throughout our period and beyond, because the act of giving created ‘the satisfactions of regard ’ and …
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