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Human capital and empire : Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British imperialism in Asia, c.1690-c.1820 / Andrew Mackillop.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mackillop, Andrew, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
- Studies in imperialism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East India Company.
- Imperialism--History.
- Imperialism.
- History.
- Human capital--Asia--History.
- Human capital.
- Colonies.
- Scotland--Colonies--Asia.
- Scotland.
- Ireland--Colonies--Asia.
- Ireland.
- Wales--Colonies--Asia.
- Wales.
- Asia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 319 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Beginnings: London and early links with the English East India companies
- 2. The brokers of human capital: shareholders and directors
- 3. Civil servants and mariners
- 4. The military: economies of high-and low-value human capital
- 5. Circuits of human and cultural capital: medicine and the knowledge economy in Asia
- 6. The free traders: connecting economies of human and monetary capital
- 7. Returns: realising the human capital economy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-311) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 0719070724
- 9780719070723
- OCLC:
- 1242407891
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