Author: David ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Correspondence of David Scott, Director and Chairman of the East India Company, Relating to Indian Affairs, 1787-1805
Author: David ScottThe Correspondence of David Scott, Director and Chairman of the East India Company, Relating to Indian Affairs, 1787-1805: 1800-1805
Author: David ScottThe Correspondence of David Scott, Director and Chairman of the East India Company, Relating to Indian Affairs, 1787-1805
Author: David ScottThe East India Company, 1600–1858
Author: Ian BarrowPublisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624665985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China’s nineteenth-century addiction. In India it expanded from a few small coastal settlements to govern territories that far exceeded the British Isles in extent and population. It minted coins in its name, established law courts and prisons, and prosecuted wars with one of the world’s largest armies. Over time, the Company developed a pronounced and aggressive colonialism that laid the foundation for Britain’s Eastern empire. A study of the Company, therefore, is a study of the rise of the modern world. In clear, engaging prose, Ian Barrow sets the rise and fall of the Company into political, economic, and cultural contexts and explains how and why the Company was transformed from a maritime trading entity into a territorial colonial state. Excerpts from eighteen primary documents illustrate the main themes and ideas discussed in the text. Maps, illustrations, a glossary, and a chronology are also included.
British Naval Power in the East, 1794-1805
Author: Peter A. WardPublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843838486
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Shows how Rainier skillfully coped with the immense difficulties of maintaining British naval power in a huge area fraught with difficult circumstances. When war broke out with France in 1793, there immediately arose the threat of a renewed French challenge to British supremacy in India. This security problem was compounded in 1795 when the French overran the Netherlands and the extremely valuable Dutch trade routes and Dutch colonies, including the Cape of Good Hope and what is now Indonesia, fell under French control. The task of securing British interests in the East was a formidable one: the distanceswere huge, communication with London could take years, there were problems marshalling resources, and fine diplomatic skills were needed to keep independent rulers on the British side and to ensure full co-operation from the EastIndia Company. The person charged with overseeing this formidable task was Admiral Peter Rainier (1741-1808), commander of the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean and the East from 1794 to 1805. This book discusses the enormous difficulties Rainier faced. It outlines his career, explaining how he carried out his role with exceptional skill; how he succeeded in securing British interests in the East - whilst avoiding the need to fight a major battle; how he enhanced Britain's commanding position at sea; and how, additionally, in co-operation with the Governor-General, Richard Wellesley, he further advanced Britain's position in India itself. Peter Ward completed a PhD in naval history at the University of Exeter after a career in international personnel management, working for Californian high technology companies in the United States, Hong Kong and Europe.
The Correspondence of David Scott, Director and Chairman of the East India Company, Relating to Indian Affairs 1787-1805
Author: David ScottThe East India Company's Maritime Service, 1746-1834
Author: Jean SuttonPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843835835
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The book charts in detail successive voyages by members of the Larkins family, who were leading owners of East India Company ships, showing what it was like to sail to and trade with India in this period. It provides a great deal of material on trade, warfare, developments in seamanship and navigation, the opening up of trade to China, and much more.
In Defence of British India
Author: Edward IngramPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000857093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In Defence of British India (1984) illustrates the problems arising from the British need to defend an Indian empire against the fluctuations in the European balance of power, preferably by isolating the empire from the European political system. The strategies devised by Britain to forestall and later to counter the expansion of European empires into the Middle East are known as the Great Game, which began in 1798 in response to the French invasion of Egypt. Later, the British planned an offensive in the Middle East itself as a means by which to defend their Indian empire.
Correspondence of David Scott, Director and Chairman of the East India Company, Relating to Indian Affairs, 1787-1805
Author: C. H. PhilipsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780861930753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Bombay Country Ships 1790-1833
Author: Anne BulleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136833137
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Concentrates on the period 1790-1833, especially the early nineteenth century when the Bombay merchant fleet was at its zenith, studying the ships, their trade and the men who owned or sailed in them. The picture is built up from a mass of details and references unearthed in the English East India Company's records and elsewhere, and includes contemporary experiences of sailing in these ships.