The Worlds of the East India Company
Editorial Reviews
Review
Everyone with scholarly interests in trading companies will enjoy the contents. JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY A useful reference book (that) reveals the richness and breadth of Indian studies. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORYThrows light on significant aspects of the Company's history. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORYThe essays are fresh, rich with data, thoughtfully and dynamically argued, engrossing. JOURNAL of the AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY
Book Description
Throws light on significant aspects of the Company's history. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY The English East India Company was one of the most powerful commercial companies ever to have existed. It laid the foundations of the British Empire in South Asia and thus lies at the very heart of the interlinked histories of Britain and Asia. This first multi-disciplinary history of the Company to be published commemorates the four-hundredth anniversary of the founding of this unique and extraordinary institution. Historians of art, culture, cartography, empire, politics, the sea, and trade, explore the origins, operation, and influence of the Company as an organisation that remained firmly engaged in maritime commercial activity in many different spheres, even as it acted as a powerful agent of territorial expansion on the Indian subcontinent. H.V. BOWEN is senior lecturer in economic and social history at the University of Leicester; NIGEL RIGBY and MARGARETTE LINCOLN work in the research department of the National Maritime Museum, London.
The Worlds of the East India Company,H.V. Bowen,Margarette Lincoln,Nigel Rigby,Boydell Press,1843830736,Asia - India & South Asia,Europe - Great Britain - General,History,History - General History,History: World,Modern - 17th Century,World - Colonial Studies,British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700,British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900,British Empire,British Isles,Business & Management,Economic history,England,History / Modern / General,Imperialism,India,Indian sub-continent,Institutions & organizations: general,International institutions,International trade,Modern period, c 1500 onwards,World history: from c 1900 -,c 1800 to c 1900
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