The business of empire : the East India Company and imperial Britain, 1756-1833 /
The first detailed study of what happened in Britain when the East India Company acquired a vast territorial empire in South Asia. It offers a reconstruction of the inner workings of the Company as it made the remarkable transition from business to empire during the late-eighteenth century.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Summary: | The first detailed study of what happened in Britain when the East India Company acquired a vast territorial empire in South Asia. It offers a reconstruction of the inner workings of the Company as it made the remarkable transition from business to empire during the late-eighteenth century. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511146604 9780511146602 0511145810 9780511145810 0511146256 9780511146251 9780511146831 0511146833 9780511495724 0511495722 0505111462 9780505111463 1107152011 9781107152014 1280347120 9781280347122 0511312261 9780511312267 |
