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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.
The definitive Casualty Roll for the Second Afghan War 1878-1880.
Lists 3,000 British and Indian Officers and men, arranged by
regiment and giving the precise nature of the casualties wherever
details are available.
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