The Twilight of the East India Company : The Evolution of Anglo-Asian Commerce and Politics, 1790-1860


Anthony Webster
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2009
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1 online resource (214 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 Introduction: The end of the East India Company, the historians and the evolution of Anglo-Indian commerce and politics; 2 The origins of the East India Company and the rise of non-Company commercial interests in Britain, India and Asia,1600-1793; 3 War, politics and India: The battle for the East India Company trade monopoly, 1793-1813; 4 Accommodating free trade: India, the East India Company and the commercial revolution of 1814-1830; 5 Crisis and trade liberalisation 1830-1834: Financial chaos and the end of the East India Company's commercial role and privileges. - 6 Re-ordering Anglo-Asian commerce and politics: 1833-18477 Crisis, the resurgence of London and the end of the East India Company: 1847-1860; 8 Conclusion: The decline of the East India Company and the evolution of British commercial and political interests in Asia, 1793-1860; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. - 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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