The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756–1833
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- Name
- The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756–1833
- Description
- A major scholarly monograph analysing the domestic impact of British imperial expansion through the lens of the East India Company's transformation from trading organisation to imperial power in South Asia. Bowen examines the Company's stockholders, directors, administrative structures, financial operations, and interactions with the British economy and society during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, drawing extensively on Company records held in the British Library.
- Related To
- Lord North
- Type
- Financial Data
- Type
- Published Reference Work
- Date Created
- 2005
- Language
- English