East India Company V4

by Henry Stevens

Overview

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence. Volume IV, entitled Trade, Finance and Power, considers the Company's exercise of power in relation to a number of economic issues, and covers not only its official trade, but the entrepreneurial activities of private individuals operating under Company licence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000557824
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	262
File size:	861 KB

About the Author

Patrick Truck

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Early English trade and settlement in Asia, 1602-1690 2 Fortifications and the 'idea' of force in early English East India Company relations with India 3 Trade and politics in 18th century India 4 The English East India Company in the 17th and 18th centuries: A pre-modern multinational organization 5 Private British trade in the Indian Ocean before 1800 6 Private British investment in eighteenth-century Bengal 7 Trade and political dominion in South India, 1750-1790: Changing British-Indian relations A successor to the Moguls: The Nawab of the Carnatic and the East India Company, 1763-1785 9 Economic and political expansion: The case of Oudh 10 Trade and empire in Awadh 1765-1804 11 Debate: Early British imperialism in India