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The East India Company and the British Empire in the Far East.
Marguerite Eyer Wilbur
Published
1945
by Stanford University Press in Stanford, Calif
.
Written in
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 447-452.
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | DS465 .W67 1945a |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xiii, 477 p. |
| Number of Pages | 477 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL6098641M |
| LC Control Number | 51022716 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 3357785 |
Huw Bowen’s The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, is must reading for students of British imperialism. Business of Empire, Bowen’s third major work on the topic, raises the question “what happened to the East India Company in London after it became an imperial power?” As the paramount political. British East India Company: see East India Company, British East India Company, British, –, company chartered by Queen Elizabeth I for trade with Asia. The original object of the group of merchants involved was to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade with the East Indies.
India - India - The British, – The English venture to India was entrusted to the (English) East India Company, which received its monopoly rights of trade in The company included a group of London merchants attracted by Eastern prospects, not comparable to the national character of the Dutch company. Its initial capital was less than one-tenth of the Dutch company’s. "Jonathan Israel's The Dutch Republic Boxer's The Dutch Seaborne Empire () is a classic, but his Jan Compagnie in War and Peace () is probably better. Stephen Bown's Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, (), Is.
It is unbelievable today a company can manage not only trade, but armies, wars, politics and nation. The British East India Company does not have a parallel in the history of mankind. It does not fall to many of us to be worshipped as a living god, but that was the fate of John Nicholson, a 19th century British army officer in the service of the East India Company. Nicholson.
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Antony Wild has succeeded beyond any scale of recognition in his book The East India Company: Trade and Conquest from This book, which details the English East India Company's history will appeal to anyone with an interest in British, Indian, Asian, American, military, nautical, or commerical history-- it is that by: East India Company, English company formed in for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India.
Starting as a monopolistic trading body, the company became involved in politics and acted as an agent of British imperialism in India from the early 18th century to the midth century. The book is a chronology of the Mughals and the how the British gained India, the heavy-handed, brutal antics of the East India Company and its British officers.
He singles out Lord Robert Clive. He attacks him in a personal, vindictive way, which not only smacks of amateurism but reads as though he's trying to appease a little gang somewhere/5().
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country. In Augustthe East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army/5().
W hen the British East India Company set sail to explore—and exploit—the riches of the world in the s, it was based out of an unpretentious London house. How it grew from that to toppling. Additional Physical Format: Online version: Wilbur, Marguerite Eyer, b.
East India company and the British empire in the Far East. New York: R.R. Smith, Additional Physical Format: Online version: Wilbur, Marguerite Eyer, b.
East India Company and the British Empire in the Far East. New York, Russell & Russell [, ©]. The East India Company really was too big to fail. So it was that in it was saved by history’s first mega-bailout. But unlike Lehman Brothers, the East India Company really was too big to fail.
The East India Company: And the British Empire in the Far East: Author: Marguerite Eyer Wilbur: Publisher: Stanford University Press: ISBN: X, Export Citation: BiBTeX EndNote RefMan2/5(1). British East India Company Formation and Organization The British East India Company was formed to share in the East Indian spice trade.
This trade had been a near monopoly of Spain and Portugal until the Dutch moved into the region in the s; after which they maintained the same control by trying to keep out other nations. TheFile Size: KB. I largely specialize in Canadian legal history.
I know bits and pieces of other Empire-type history, but the British East India Company is a huge black hole for me. I've run into them intermittently, but actually know shamefully little. I'm looking for titles (books and/or articles) to enhance my knowledge on the subject.
The British East India Company served as one of the key players in the formation of the British Empire. From its origins as a trading company struggling to keep up with its superior Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish competitors to its tenure as the ruling authority of the Indian subcontinent to its eventual hubristic downfall, the East India Company serves as a lens through which to explore the Author: Charles River Editors.
From my opinion and u can purchase this book Through online also!!. When the British finally left India innearly years after the founding of the East India Company, that world dissolved overnight. Perhaps it is only possible now, more than 70 years.
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Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. The East India Company and the British Empire in the Far East by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur; 3 editions; First published in ; Subjects: British, East India.
by Tom Williams In the midth century, India, the jewel in Britain's imperial crown wasn't, technically, part of the Empire at all. It was run by the East India Company, a commercial organisation, originally set up to trade with the Far East. Later The East India Company introduced the fashion of adding sugar to tea, leading to more frequent consumption of tea and an increase in the import of sugar.
Driven by the increasing demand for tea, what was once an indulgence became a widely enjoyed pastime, and by the late 18th century, tea accounted for more than 60% of The Company’s.
As "India", it was a founding member of the League of Nations, a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in, andand a founding member of the United Nations in San Francisco in This system of governance was instituted on 28 Junewhen, after the Indian Rebellion ofthe rule of the British East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the Capital: Calcutta, (–), New Delhi, (–).
The book covers the period of roughly toor the start of British involvement in India to the founding of Singapore and the end of the company's monopoly status. I found the book interesting on two fronts: it gives me some Indian history (from the particular viewpoint of the British) and a view of unbridled capitalism/5.
Synopsis During years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe".
As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire /5().The Anglo-Nepalese War (1 November – 4 March ), also known as the Gurkha War, was fought between the Kingdom of Gorkha (present-day Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal) and the East India Company (EIC, present-day India).
Both sides had ambitious expansion plans for the mountainous north of the Indian subcontinent. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Sugauli in Location: Kingdom of Gorkha.The book is a chronology of the Mughals and the how the British gained India, the heavy-handed, brutal antics of the East India Company and its British officers.
He singles out Lord Robert Clive. He attacks him in a personal, vindictive way, which not only smacks of amateurism but reads as though he's trying to appease a little gang somewhere/5().
