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The Worlds of the East India Company Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Bowen, H. V. (Editor), Lincoln, Margarette (Editor), Rigby, Nigel (Editor)
ISBN: 1843830736     ISBN-13: 9781843830733
Publisher: Boydell Press
OUR PRICE:   $37.95  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: November 2006
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | World - General
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
- History | Asia - India & South Asia
Dewey: 382.094
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.17" W x 9.22" (0.93 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Cultural Region - Indian
 
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Publisher Description:
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.