The Worlds of the East India Company

Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-84383-073-3
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowen, H V

Lincoln, Margarette

Rigby, Nigel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cook, Andrew

Lambert, Andrew

Farrington, Anthony

Lenman, Bruce

Hancock, David

Gaastra, Femme

Quilley, Geoff

Thomas, James H

Osborn, Jeremy

Prakash, Om

Marshall, Peter

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay

Lahiri, Shompa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Quilley, Geoff
GEOFF QUILLEY is Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex, specializing in the relation of British and western visual culture to empire and global expansion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was previously Curator of Fine Art at the National Maritime Museum, London, and has written and edited numerous books, including Empire to Nation: Art, History and the Visualization of Maritime Britain, 1768-1829 (Yale University Press 2011).

Lambert, Andrew
Andrew Lambert is Professor of War Studies at King's College, London and one of Britain's foremost maritime and naval historians.