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The worlds of the East India Company / edited by H.V. Bowen, Margarette Lincoln and Nigel Rigby.
Lippincott Library HF483.E6 W67 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East India Company--History--Congresses.
- East India Company.
- Colonies.
- History.
- Commerce.
- Great Britain--Commerce--India--History--Congresses.
- Great Britain.
- India--Commerce--Great Britain--History--Congresses.
- India.
- Great Britain--Commerce--Asia--History--Congresses.
- Asia--Commerce--Great Britain--History--Congresses.
- Asia.
- Great Britain--Colonies--South Asia--History--Congresses.
- South Asia.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 246 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press in association with the National Maritime Museum and Univerisity of Leicester, 2002.
- Summary:
- Historians explore the origins, operation, and influence of the Company in many different spheres, but especially on the Indian subcontinent.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Papers from a conference held at the National Maritime Museum, in association with the University of Leicester, in July 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0851158773
- OCLC:
- 59417834
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