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OverviewThrows light on significant aspects of the Company's history. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY The English East India Company was one of the most powerful commercial companies ever to have existed. It laid the foundations of the British Empire in South Asia and thus lies at the very heart of the interlinked histories of Britain and Asia. This first multi-disciplinary history of the Company to be published commemorates the four-hundredth anniversary of the founding of this unique and extraordinary institution. Historians of art, culture, cartography, empire, politics, the sea, and trade, explore the origins, operation, and influence of the Company as an organisation that remained firmly engaged in maritime commercial activity in many different spheres, even as it acted as a powerful agent of territorial expansion on the Indian subcontinent. H.V. BOWEN is senior lecturer in economic and social history at the University of Leicester; NIGEL RIGBY and MARGARETTE LINCOLN work in the research department of the National Maritime Museum, London. Full Product DetailsAuthor: H.V. Bowen , Margarette Lincoln , Nigel Rigby , Andrew CookPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: The Boydell Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.478kg ISBN: 9781843830733ISBN 10: 1843830736 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 16 November 2006 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsEveryone with scholarly interests in trading companies will enjoy the contents. JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY A useful reference book (that) reveals the richness and breadth of Indian studies. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORYHandsomely produced.(with) a number of superb black-and-white and colour reproductions of contemporary prints and ships models. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY Throws light on significant aspects of the Company's history. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORYThe essays are fresh, rich with data, thoughtfully and dynamically argued, engrossing. JOURNAL of the AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY Author InformationAndrew 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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