The Worlds of the East India Company (Paperback, New edition)

The first multi-disciplinary history of the English East India Company, one of the most powerful commercial companies ever to have existed. 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 thefoundations 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 ineconomic and social history at the University of Leicester; NIGEL RIGBY and MARGARETTE LINCOLN work in the research department of the National Maritime Museum, London.

General

Imprint:	The Boydell Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	September 2011
Editors:	H.V. Bowen • Margarette Lincoln • Nigel Rigby
Contributors:	Andrew Cook • Andrew Lambert • Anthony Farrington • Bruce Lenman • David Hancock (Contributor) • Femme Gaastra • Geoff Quilley
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	272
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-84383-073-3
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-84383-073-6
Barcode:	9781843830733

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