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The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857

Author : Margot Finn,Kate Smith
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787350274

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The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn,Kate Smith Pdf

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.

The Empires of the Near East and India

Author : Hani Khafipour
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1103 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231547840

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The Empires of the Near East and India by Hani Khafipour Pdf

In the early modern world, the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires sprawled across a vast swath of the earth, stretching from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. The diverse and overlapping literate communities that flourished in these three empires left a lasting legacy on the political, religious, and cultural landscape of the Near East and India. This volume is a comprehensive sourcebook of newly translated texts that shed light on the intertwined histories and cultures of these communities, presenting a wide range of source material spanning literature, philosophy, religion, politics, mysticism, and visual art in thematically organized chapters. Scholarly essays by leading researchers provide historical context for closer analyses of a lesser-known era and a framework for further research and debate. The volume aims to provide a new model for the study and teaching of the region’s early modern history that stands in contrast to the prevailing trend of examining this interconnected past in isolation.

The Corporation That Changed the World

Author : Nick Robins
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0745331963

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The Corporation That Changed the World by Nick Robins Pdf

The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles, and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Company's practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today. The Corporation That Changed the World is the first book to reveal the Company's enduring legacy as a corporation. This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance, and regulation drove its spectacular rise and fall. For decades, the Company was simply too big to fail, and stock market bubbles, famines, drug-running, and even duels between rival executives are to be found in this new account. For Robins, the Company's story provides vital lessons on both the role of corporations in world history and the steps required to make global business accountable today.

The Anarchy

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526634016

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The Anarchy by William Dalrymple Pdf

THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India ... A book of beauty' – Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.

The East India Company, 1600–1858

Author : Ian Barrow
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624665981

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The East India Company, 1600–1858 by Ian Barrow Pdf

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 East India Company and the Natural World

Author : V. Damodaran,A. Winterbottom,A. Lester
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137427274

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The East India Company and the Natural World by V. Damodaran,A. Winterbottom,A. Lester Pdf

This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857.

The Worlds of the East India Company

Author : H. V. Bowen,Margarette Lincoln,Nigel Rigby
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843830733

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The Worlds of the East India Company by H. V. Bowen,Margarette Lincoln,Nigel Rigby Pdf

A collection of essays on the history and relationships of the East India Company from 1600 to the early 1800s.

The East India Company Book of Spices

Author : Antony Wild
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0004127757

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The East India Company Book of Spices by Antony Wild Pdf

A guide to spices and their uses features recipes, little-known facts, exotic tales, and a look at the history of the spice trade

Rise and Fall East India

Author : Ramkrishna Mukherjee
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : 9780853453154

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Rise and Fall East India by Ramkrishna Mukherjee Pdf

This remarkable study of the British East India Company offers great insight into the formation of the Company, its impact on both England and India, and the social forces that shaped its development. With great detail and rich documentation, Ramkrishna Mukherjee examines a period of 258 years, beginning immediately before the Company's birth and ending with its collapse in 1858. This is an engrossing work that reveals much about what is no doubt one of the most important institutions in the history of British colonialism and of world capitalism generally.

The East India Company Book of Coffee

Author : Antony Wild
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Cooking
ISBN : IND:30000106548898

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The East India Company Book of Coffee by Antony Wild Pdf

Coffee is one of the world's most popular beverages, but it is so much a part of daily life that people tend to take it for granted. This fascinating book takes the reader behind the scenes, and shows them the story of coffee--its colorful history, where it comes from, how it is produced, and the many different ways of drinking it. Color photos.

The East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858

Author : Penelope Carson
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843837329

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The East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858 by Penelope Carson Pdf

An overview of the East India Company's policy towards religion throughout its period of rule in India. This wide-ranging book charts how the East India Company grappled with religious issues in its multi-faith empire, putting them into the context of pressures exerted both in Britain and on the subcontinent, from the Company's early mercantile beginnings to the bloody end of its rule in 1858. Religion was at the heart of the East India Company's relationship with India, but the course of its religious policy has rarely been examined in any systematic way. The free exercise of religion, the policy the Company adopted in its early days in order to safeguard the security of its possessions, was challenged by Evangelicals in the late eighteenth century. They demanded that the Company should grant free access to Christians of all Protestant denominations and an end to 'barbaric' Indian religious practices. This gave rise to an unprecedented petitioning movement in 1813, comparable in strength to that for theabolition of the slave trade the following year. It was an important milestone in British domestic politics. The final years of the Company's rule were dominated by its attempts to withstand Evangelical demands in the face of growing hostility from Indians. In the end it pleased no one, and its rule came to a gory and ignominious end. In this compelling account, Penny Carson examines the twists and turns of the East India Company's policy on religious issues. The story of how the Company dealt with the fact that it was a Christian Company, trying to be equitable to the different faiths it found in India, has resonances for Britain today as it attempts to accommodate the religions of all its peoples within the Christian heritage and structure of the state. Penelope Carson is an independent scholar with a doctorate from King's College, London.

The Company

Author : Stephen Bown
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385694094

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people--from the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the great plains, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many Indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America. When the Company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson--one of the greatest villains in Canadian history--and the Company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world. Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company's history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel.

The East India Company

Author : Tirthankar Roy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788184756135

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The East India Company by Tirthankar Roy Pdf

This groundbreaking study examines how the East India Company founded an empire in India at the same time it started losing ground in business. For over 200 years, the Company’s vast business network had spanned Persia, India, China, Indonesia and North America. But in the late 1700s, its career took a dramatic turn, and it ended up being an empire builder. In this fascinating account, Tirthankar Roy reveals how the Company’s trade with India changed it—and how the Company changed Indian business. Fitting together many pieces of a vast jigsaw puzzle, the book explores how politics meshed so closely with the conduct of business then, and what that tells us about doing business now. ‘One of the first major attempts to tell the company’s story from an Indian business perspective’—Financial Express

The Wild East

Author : Barbara Harriss-White,Lucia Michelutti
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787353244

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The Wild East by Barbara Harriss-White,Lucia Michelutti Pdf

The Wild East bridges political economy and anthropology to examine a variety of il/legal economic sectors and businesses such as red sanders, coal, fire, oil, sand, air spectrum, land, water, real estate, procurement and industrial labour. The 11 case studies, based across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, explore how state regulative law is often ignored and/or selectively manipulated. The emerging collective narrative shows the workings of regulated criminal economic systems where criminal formations, politicians, police, judges and bureaucrats are deeply intertwined. By pioneering the field-study of the politicisation of economic crime, and disrupting the wider literature on South Asia’s informal economy, The Wild East aims to influence future research agendas through its case for the study of mafia-enterprises and their engagement with governance in South Asia and outside. Its empirical and theoretical contribution to debates about economic crimes in democratic regimes will be of critical value to researchers in Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Comparative Politics, Political Science and International Relations, Criminologists and Development Studies, as well as to those inside and outside academia interested in current affairs and the relationship between crime, politics and mafia enterprises.

The East India Company's Maritime Service, 1746-1834

Author : Jean Sutton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843835837

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The East India Company's Maritime Service, 1746-1834 by Jean Sutton Pdf

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.