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Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Papers Relating to East India Affairs
Author: Papers Relating to East India Affairs (Madras Army).
Author: The 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.
The Company-State
Author: Philip J. SternPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199930368
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
The Company-State offers a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the century before its acquisition of territorial power. It argues the Company was no mere merchant, but a form of early modern, colonial state and sovereign that laid the foundations for the British Empire in India.
Indexes to Bills, Reports, Accounts and Other Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 470
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The Administration of the East India Company
Author: Sir John William KayePublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Parliamentary papers, a catalogue
Author: Parliament proc, indexesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 80
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The Business of Empire
Author: H. V. BowenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139447882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Business of Empire assesses the domestic impact of British imperial expansion by analysing what happened in Britain following the East India Company's acquisition of a vast territorial empire in South Asia. Drawing on a mass of hitherto unused material contained in the company's administrative and financial records, the book offers a reconstruction of the inner workings of the company as it made the remarkable transition from business to empire during the late-eighteenth century. H. V. Bowen profiles the company's stockholders and directors and examines how those in London adapted their methods, working practices, and policies to changing circumstances in India. He also explores the company's multifarious interactions with the domestic economy and society, and sheds important new light on its substantial contributions to the development of Britain's imperial state, public finances, military strength, trade and industry. This book will appeal to all those interested in imperial, economic and business history.
Journals of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain House of CommonsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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