British Encounters with India, 1750-1830

TIM KEIRN is Lecturer in both History and Education at California State University, Long Beach, USA. He has published a range of articles and essays on eighteenth-century British and World history as well as in History Education. He is the author of Witness to World History: The Early Modern Period (forthcoming 2013). NORBERT SCHURER is Associate Professor in the English department at California State University, Long Beach, USA. His research and teaching focuses on eighteenth-century British literature, book history, and women's writing. His recent publications include an edition of the novel Sophia by Charlotte Lennox and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children: A Reader's Guide.

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