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Exploring the interplay of politics and commerce in one of the most
dynamic periods of British history, this book traces the fortunes
of the India and Eastern Trading Company Limited, established in
1906 to finance a jute plantation in Assam, north-east India. In a
watershed period for commercial culture, as family capitalism and
industrial economics gave way to a predominance of speculative
investment and the marketing of ideas, analysis of this
London-registered company and its international management forms a
lens through which to view the broader socio-political and economic
environment of the late-Victorian period to the interwar. Mapping
the eclectic bonds that created a network of association between a
multinational cast of merchants, company promoters, mining
engineers, politicians and industrialists, reveals the multiplicity
of strands which coalesced to create one share company. By
examining their responses to the opportunities created by
colonialism: to enabling legislations and set-backs, to competition
and collaboration, internationalism versus rising nationalism, an
important era in British history is examined from an entirely fresh
perspective. The history of the India and Eastern Trading Company
Limited is a tale of cloaked agendas, of land speculation under the
guise of colonial agriculture, of German and Russian interests
embedded in British-empire prospects, which exposes the intrigues
of some of the most infamous imperialists of the era; figures who
were the subject of intense academic scrutiny throughout the
twentieth century and remain at the forefront of impassioned debate
in the twenty first.
Exploring the interplay of politics and commerce in one of the most
dynamic periods of British history, this book traces the fortunes
of the India and Eastern Trading Company Limited, established in
1906 to finance a jute plantation in Assam, north-east India. In a
watershed period for commercial culture, as family capitalism and
industrial economics gave way to a predominance of speculative
investment and the marketing of ideas, analysis of this
London-registered company and its international management forms a
lens through which to view the broader socio-political and economic
environment of the late-Victorian period to the interwar. Mapping
the eclectic bonds that created a network of association between a
multinational cast of merchants, company promoters, mining
engineers, politicians and industrialists, reveals the multiplicity
of strands which coalesced to create one share company. By
examining their responses to the opportunities created by
colonialism: to enabling legislations and set-backs, to competition
and collaboration, internationalism versus rising nationalism, an
important era in British history is examined from an entirely fresh
perspective. The history of the India and Eastern Trading Company
Limited is a tale of cloaked agendas, of land speculation under the
guise of colonial agriculture, of German and Russian interests
embedded in British-empire prospects, which exposes the intrigues
of some of the most infamous imperialists of the era; figures who
were the subject of intense academic scrutiny throughout the
twentieth century and remain at the forefront of impassioned debate
in the twenty first.
Drawing upon an impressive range of international sources, this
book explores the late-nineteenth century partnership between
Bradford worsted manufacturers the Briggs brothers and the German
merchant Ernst Posselt, and their subsequent foreign direct
investment in a modern factory and workers' community at Marki,
near Warsaw in Poland. Protectionism and increasing foreign
competition are discussed, among many complex economic pressures on
British industry, as likely catalysts for this enterprise and the
general historiography of the Polish lands is explored to reveal a
climate of extraordinary opportunity for well-capitalised foreign
industrialists in this period. British, Polish and German press and
archival documents, as well as Russian police and factory
inspectors' reports reveal the everyday experience of Polish
factory workers and British consular correspondence provides
fascinating insight into the machinations of the entrepreneurs and
Warsaw's cosmopolitan business community. Through the development
and domination of market and raw materials sources, this venture is
shown to have monopolised worsted manufacture in the Russian
Empire, using state of the art technology to create, and modern
marketing techniques to promote, its product range and evolving
image. Marki was described in 1886 as 'a second edition of
Saltaire' and latterly as 'the Polish Bournville or Port Sunlight',
thus aspects of British and Polish social history are compared to
assess the efficacy of introducing the model-community concept, in
combination with a radical employment policy, to less
industrially-developed Poland. The experiences of an expatriate
community of skilled Yorkshire foremen and their instrumentality in
diffusing British industrial technology throughout the Russian
Empire are described. Against a backdrop of political instability
and social upheaval, which dramatically impacted on business
behaviour after 1905 and particularly during the interwar period of
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