Author: Frederick Charles DanversPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Letters Received by the East India Company from Its Servanto in the East
Author: Frederick Charles DanversPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Letters Received by the East India Company from Its Servants in the East
Author: William FosterLetters Received by the East India Company from Its Servants in the East
Author: East India CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
D, Society. E, Geography. 1912
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
Author: Margot FinnPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787350274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library ...: A-H
Author: Dennis O'DonovanImperial Boredom
Author: Jeffrey A. AuerbachPublisher:
ISBN: 0198827377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that the empire was about adventure and excitement, with heroic men and intrepid women eagerly spreading commerce and civilization around the globe, this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, and lavishly illustrated account suggests instead that boredom was central to the experience of empire. Combining individual stories of pain and perseverance with broader analysis, Professor Auerbach considers what it was actually like to sail to Australia, to serve as a soldier in South Africa, or to accompany a colonial official to the hill stations of India. He reveals that for numerous men and women, from explorers to governors, tourists to settlers, the Victorian Empire was dull and disappointing. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, and travelogues, Imperial Boredom demonstrates that all across the empire, men and women found the landscapes monotonous, the physical and psychological distance from home debilitating, the routines of everyday life wearisome, and their work tedious and unfulfilling. The empire s early years may have been about wonder and marvel, but the Victorian Empire was a far less exciting project. Many books about the British Empire focus on what happened; this book concentrates on how people felt.
Proceedings of Meetings
Author: Indian Historical Records CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Best Books: D, Society. E, Geography. 1912
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Author: