The Anarchy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Anarchy write by William Dalrymple. This book was released on 2020-11-12. The Anarchy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India ... A book of beauty' – Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
The East India Company, 1600–1858
The East India Company, 1600–1858 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The East India Company, 1600–1858 write by Ian Barrow. This book was released on 2017-02-14. The East India Company, 1600–1858 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China’s nineteenth-century addiction. In India it expanded from a few small coastal settlements to govern territories that far exceeded the British Isles in extent and population. It minted coins in its name, established law courts and prisons, and prosecuted wars with one of the world’s largest armies. Over time, the Company developed a pronounced and aggressive colonialism that laid the foundation for Britain’s Eastern empire. A study of the Company, therefore, is a study of the rise of the modern world. In clear, engaging prose, Ian Barrow sets the rise and fall of the Company into political, economic, and cultural contexts and explains how and why the Company was transformed from a maritime trading entity into a territorial colonial state. Excerpts from eighteen primary documents illustrate the main themes and ideas discussed in the text. Maps, illustrations, a glossary, and a chronology are also included.
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 write by Margot Finn. This book was released on 2018-02-15. The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
The Worlds of the East India Company
The Worlds of the East India Company - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Worlds of the East India Company write by H. V. Bowen. This book was released on 2002. The Worlds of the East India Company available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of essays on the history and relationships of the East India Company from 1600 to the early 1800s.
The East India Company
The East India Company - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The East India Company write by Tirthankar Roy. This book was released on 2016-01-15. The East India Company available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking study examines how the East India Company founded an empire in India at the same time it started losing ground in business. For over 200 years, the Company’s vast business network had spanned Persia, India, China, Indonesia and North America. But in the late 1700s, its career took a dramatic turn, and it ended up being an empire builder. In this fascinating account, Tirthankar Roy reveals how the Company’s trade with India changed it—and how the Company changed Indian business. Fitting together many pieces of a vast jigsaw puzzle, the book explores how politics meshed so closely with the conduct of business then, and what that tells us about doing business now. ‘One of the first major attempts to tell the company’s story from an Indian business perspective’—Financial Express
