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Lascars and Indian Ocean Seafaring, 1780-1860
Shipboard Life, Unrest and Mutiny
Av Aaron Jaffer
Inbunden, 2015
1275 kr
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Cases of mutiny and other forms of protest are used to reveal full and interesting details of lascar shipboard life.Shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's 2016 Gladstone Prize.Lascars were seamen from the Indian subcontinent and other areas of the Indian Ocean region who were employed …
Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia
Gillian Maclaine and his Business Network
Inbunden, 2015
1275 kr
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Discusses the complexities of a trading network in this period, outling commodity chains, links between colonies and colonial centres, and tensions between local polities and competing empires.This book explores European mercantile activity in Southeast Asia at a time when trade in this part of the …
Defending British India against Napoleon
The Foreign Policy of Governor-General Lord Minto, 1807-13
Av Amita Das, Aditya Das m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1341 kr
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A study of how Napoleon's very real and very serious threat to British India was countered.Following Napoleon's defeat of Prussia in 1806 and his treaties with Russia and Persia in 1807, the French threat to Britain's position in India seemed real and strengthening. At the same time, Napoleon's …
British Houses in Late Mughal Delhi
Inbunden, 2018
608 kr
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Demonstrates, through an investigation of material culture, the complexity of the relationship between rulers and ruled in early nineteenth-century British India.This book explores ambivalence in the domestic building activities of a group of East India Company officials in Delhi in the fifty years …
Provincial Society and Empire
The Cumbrian Counties and the East Indies, 1680-1829
Inbunden, 2018
1341 kr
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Shows how it was not just the London elite and City merchants who had connections to British India.Over the long eighteenth century, thousands of men and women from the English provinces lived and worked in the East Indies. Yet the provincial commitment of human, financial and social capital to …
English East India Company's Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750-1850
Economy, Empire and Business
Inbunden, 2019
1341 kr
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This book examines the silk-processing activities of the English East India Company in Bengal.This book examines the silk-processing activities of the English East India Company in Bengal and presents the Company as a manufacturer rather than a trading body or political agent. Silk was one of the …
Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819-67
Av Stan Neal
Inbunden, 2019
1275 kr
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Discusses how Britain replicated the "Singapore model" - the use of imported "industrious" Chinese labour - to other parts of its empire, with varying degrees of success.The transformation of Singapore, founded by Stamford Raffles in 1819, from a trading post to a major centre for international …
British Art and the East India Company
Inbunden, 2020
1741 kr
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Examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art, demonstrating how art and related forms of culture were closely tied to commerce and the rise of the commercial state.This book examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development …
British Traders in the East Indies, 1770-1820
'At Home in the Eastern Seas'
Av W. G. Miller
Inbunden, 2020
1620 kr
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An in-depth study of the British traders who extended British commercial activity beyond the area controlled by the East India Company.This book provides an in-depth analysis of the British private traders who engaged in the intra-Asian trade, known to contemporaries as the "country trade", between …
Innovative Physician and Scientist in Britain and British India
The Life and Times of Sir William Brooke O’Shaughnessy, 1808-1889
Inbunden, 2025
1275 kr
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Through an examination of the life and remarkable achievements of Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy, this book reveals a great deal about both medical and scientific innovation in the nineteenth century. It traces O'Shaughnessy's career. At the age of twenty-three in 1831 he identified the …
Maritime Misadventures in Early Modern Southeast Asia
Storms, Pirates, Accidents and War
Inbunden, 2025
1275 kr
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An analysis of the misadventures which befell British, Danish and Portuguese merchant mariners in Southeast Asia between 1790 and 1820, a time when British trade and imperialism were expanding.This study describes and analyses the misadventures which befell British, Danish and Portuguese 'country …
Richest East India Merchant
The Life and Business of John Palmer of Calcutta, 1767-1836
Inbunden, 2007
1326 kr
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Biography and business history of wealthy British merchant in India reveals much about the nineteenth-century Empire.John Palmer was the most influential and wealthiest British merchant in British India for the first three decades of the nineteenth century. He ran an `agency house', a global …
Great Uprising in India, 1857-58
Untold Stories, Indian and British
Inbunden, 2007
1341 kr
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The events of the 1857-8 uprising in India as seen through the eyes of British and Indian eye-witnesses, giving a vivid picture of life in the midst of what one called 'the wind of madness.'A volume in the Worlds of the East India Company series, edited by Huw BowenThe events of 1857-58 in India …
Twilight of the East India Company
The Evolution of Anglo-Asian Commerce and Politics, 1790-1860
Inbunden, 2009
1275 kr
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Examines how and why the East India Company was transformed from a commercial trading company to an institution of government, and then abolished.This book examines the development of British commercial, financial and political relations with India and the Far East during the final period of the …
Scottish Orientalists and India
The Muir Brothers, Religion, Education and Empire
Inbunden, 2010
1341 kr
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A detailed assessment of how Western thinking about India developed in the nineteenth century, focusing on the exceptionally full lives of the scholar-administrator Muir brothers.Structured around the lives and careers of two Scottish scholar-administrator brothers, Sir William and Dr John Muir, …
East India Company's Maritime Service, 1746-1834
Masters of the Eastern Seas
Av Jean Sutton
Inbunden, 2010
1341 kr
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Describes the voyages of East India Company's ships to India and China in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, discussing the nature of trade and the involvement of the Company's ships in maritime warfare.Awarded the prestigious Anderson Medal by the Society for Nautical Research for the …
East India Company's London Workers
Management of the Warehouse Labourers, 1800-1858
Inbunden, 2010
1275 kr
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An assessment of how the East India Company managed the labourers in its London warehouses, which was one of the largest commercial workforces in its day.The East India Company, which was by 1800 a commercial organisation of unrivalled size and complexity managing a vast empire in Asia, also played …
East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858
Inbunden, 2012
1341 kr
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An overview of the East India Company's policy towards religion throughout its period of rule in India.This wide-ranging book charts how the East India Company grappled with religious issues in its multi-faith empire, putting them into the context of pressures exerted both in Britain and on the …
Twilight of the East India Company
The Evolution of Anglo-Asian Commerce and Politics, 1790-1860
Häftad, 2013
309 kr
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Examines how and why the East India Company was transformed from a commercial trading company to an institution of government, and then abolished.This book examines the development of British commercial, financial and political relations with India and the Far East during the final period of the …
British Naval Power in the East, 1794-1805
The Command of Admiral Peter Rainier
Inbunden, 2013
1341 kr
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Shows how Rainier skillfully coped with the immense difficulties of maintaining British naval power in a huge area fraught with difficult circumstances.When war broke out with France in 1793, there immediately arose the threat of a renewed French challenge to British supremacy in India. This …
Emergence of British Power in India, 1600-1784
A Grand Strategic Interpretation
Av G J Bryant
Inbunden, 2013
1741 kr
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Outlines the East India's Company's infiltration of India from its inception to the late eighteenth century.Empires have usually been founded by charismatic, egoistic warriors or power-hungry states and peoples, sometimes spurred on by a sense of religious mission. So how was it that the …
Naval Resistance to Britain's Growing Power in India, 1660-1800
The Saffron Banner and the Tiger of Mysore
Inbunden, 2014
1275 kr
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Reveals, from a non-Eurocentric perspective, how Indian states developed and implemented maritime strategies which posed a serious threat to British naval power in the region.Most books on the colonisation of India view the subject in Eurocentric imperial terms, focusing on the ways in which …
