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Founding an empire on India's north-eastern frontiers, 1790-1840 : climate, commerce, polity / Gunnel Cederlöf.
Van Pelt Library DS483.5 .C43 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cederlöf, Gunnel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- India, Northeastern--History.
- India, Northeastern.
- India, Northeastern / History.
- Northeastern India.
- Local Subjects:
- India, Northeastern / History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 272 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- 1 Commercial Flows and Bounded Landscapes in between Empires 1
- 2 The Order and Disaster of Nature 17
- 3 Making 'Natural' Boundaries 44
- 4 The Land between Rivers: Connecting the Bengal and China Markets 79
- 5 Bureaucratic Control and Its Mismatch with Nature 117
- 6 Commerce and War: The Defeat of the Autonomous Kingdoms 162
- 7 The Fiscal Subject and the Absent Citizen 214.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780198090571
- 0198090579
- OCLC:
- 866143242
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