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

This collection of fourteen excellent essays.provides us with a very comprehensive overview of the breadth and importance of the East India Company.

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

This collection of fourteen excellent essays.provides us with a very comprehensive overview of the breadth and importance of the East India Company.

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

This collection of fourteen excellent essays.provides us with a very comprehensive overview of the breadth and importance of the East India Company.