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First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence.Volume I, Sir William Foster''s England''sQuest of Eastern Trade, examines the English investigation of trade routes to the East in the sixteenth century, and contains a scholarly and vivid account, not only of the foundation of the East India Company in 1599-1600, but also of its subsequent growth in the seventeenth century.

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence.Volume II, Peter Marshall''s Problems ofEmpire. Britain and India, 1757-1813 surveys, partly through the medium of original documents, the Company''s complex transformation from a trading concern to an imperial power.

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence. Volume III provides primary materials on the vivid controversy that engulfed the Company at one of the most crucial moments in this transition, leading to the British government''s first intervention in 1772-3 to reconstruct the Company''s management both at home and in India. The controversy is examined through two publications, William Bolts'' Considerations on India Affairs (1772) and Harry Verelst''s AView of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the English Government inBengal (1772).

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence. Volume IV, entitled Trade, Finance and Power, considers the Company''s exercise of power in relation to a number of economic issues, and covers not only its official trade, but the entrepreneurial activities of private individuals operating under Company licence.

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence. Volume V, entitled Warfare, Expansion and Resistance, raises a number of questions connected with the Company''s growing military role, and examines some of the implications of Indian resistance to the growth of its power.

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence. Volume 6 includes C. H. Philips'' The East India Company, 1784-1834, a classic study first published in 1940, examines the final struggle between the directors of the East India Company and home governments in Britain for ascendancy over management of the company as a state in India.

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence.Volume I, Sir William Foster''s England''sQuest of Eastern Trade, examines the English investigation of trade routes to the East in the sixteenth century, and contains a scholarly and vivid account, not only of the foundation of the East India Company in 1599-1600, but also of its subsequent growth in the seventeenth century.

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence.Volume II, Peter Marshall''s Problems ofEmpire. Britain and India, 1757-1813 surveys, partly through the medium of original documents, the Company''s complex transformation from a trading concern to an imperial power.

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence. Volume III provides primary materials on the vivid controversy that engulfed the Company at one of the most crucial moments in this transition, leading to the British government''s first intervention in 1772-3 to reconstruct the Company''s management both at home and in India. The controversy is examined through two publications, William Bolts'' Considerations on India Affairs (1772) and Harry Verelst''s AView of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the English Government inBengal (1772).

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence. Volume IV, entitled Trade, Finance and Power, considers the Company''s exercise of power in relation to a number of economic issues, and covers not only its official trade, but the entrepreneurial activities of private individuals operating under Company licence.

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence. Volume V, entitled Warfare, Expansion and Resistance, raises a number of questions connected with the Company''s growing military role, and examines some of the implications of Indian resistance to the growth of its power.