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Volume 20 in this series
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 and the circumstances in which innovation came about.
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Volume 19 in this series
An in-depth study of the British traders who extended British commercial activity beyond the area controlled by the East India Company.
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Volume 18 in this series
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.
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Volume 17 in this series
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.
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Volume 16 in this series
This book examines the silk-processing activities of the English East India Company in Bengal.
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Volume 15 in this series
Demonstrates, through an investigation of material culture, the complexity of the relationship between rulers and ruled in early nineteenth-century British India.
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Volume 14 in this series
Shows how it was not just the London elite and City merchants who had connections to British India.
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Volume 13 in this series
A study of how Napoleon's very real and very serious threat to British India was countered.
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Volume 12 in this series
Cases of mutiny and other forms of protest are used to reveal full and interesting details of lascar shipboard life.
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Volume 11 in this series
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.
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Volume 10 in this series
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.
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Volume 9 in this series
Outlines the East India's Company's infiltration of India from its inception to the late eighteenth century.
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Volume 8 in this series
Shows how Rainier skillfully coped with the immense difficulties of maintaining British naval power in a huge area fraught with difficult circumstances.
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Volume 7 in this series
An overview of the East India Company's policy towards religion throughout its period of rule in India.
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Volume 6 in this series
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.
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Volume 5 in this series
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.
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Volume 4 in this series
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.
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The Twilight of the East India Company
The Evolution of Anglo-Asian Commerce and Politics, 1790-1860
Volume 3 in this series
Examines how and why the East India Company was transformed from a commercial trading company to an institution of government, and then abolished.
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Volume 1 in this series
Biography and business history of wealthy British merchant in India reveals much about the nineteenth-century Empire.
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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.
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Redresses the balance on the human and cultural aspects of the idea of being Basque in the modern world.
