Letters Received from Madras, 12 Jan 1786 - 26 Feb 1787
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Release : 2022
Category : Letter writing
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Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2022
Category : Letter writing
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Author : Great Britain. India Office
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Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 1902
Category : India
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Page : 1488 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Government publications
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Page : 894 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 1803
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Great Britain House of Commons
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Page : 894 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 1803
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Author : Cross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0197653758
In the wake of the Seven Years' War and the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent, the French monarchy chartered a new East India Company. The Nouvelle Compagnie des Indes was an attempt to maintain French diplomatic and financial credit among European rivals and trading partners within a region integral to the broader imperial economy. Reimagining French power as subsisting through an informal empire of trade, instead of a territorial empire of conquest, officials and intellectuals sought to remake the trading company as a private, "purely commercial" actor, rather than a sovereign company-state. Company Politics offers a new interpretation of political economy, imperialism, and the history of the corporation during the late Old Regime and the French Revolution. Despite its reputation for speculation, corruption, and scandal, Elizabeth Cross argues that the "New Company" emerged from the unique circumstances France faced in India as a weakened imperial power vis à vis the expanding British East India Company. Seeking to control the Company for their own purposes, French government officials, theorists, and private financial actors clashed over differing notions of political economy, debt, and imperial power for Europe and the Indian Ocean world. In doing so, they envisioned new alignments between state and market, challenged the legitimacy of the Old Regime's economic and imperial policies, and sought to revolutionize the underlying corporation itself through progressive demands of corporate self-governance. Thus, the New Company should be seen as an innovative capitalist actor in its own right, not a mere derivative of its Anglo-Dutch competitors. A valuable contribution to scholarship on capitalism, empire, and globalization, Company Politics uses the Company's history to present the Revolutionary Era as one of dynamic economic ideologies, practices, and experimentation, rather than only one of crisis and decline.
Author : David Mackay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1351048805
Originally published in 1985. After the epoch-making voyages of exploration of Captain Cook, a series of further exploratory missions was financed by the British government to add to the knowledge of the lands of the southern hemisphere: 'a more minute examination of the coast' was, for example, the brief of the voyage of the Investigator. Specimens of plants and fauna were to be collected, and useful products noted. The combination of the commercial streak with a commitment to empirical science was typical of the interests of the eighteenth century. This book traces the explorations and achievements of those who undertook missions of this kind, as extensions of their patrons' eyes, as it were. The commercial possibilities - of cotton, furs, foodstuffs, and other products - were exploited to the full, and the achievements of science thus helped to strengthen the imperial effort. Notable figures include the distinguished naturalist Sir Joseph Banks and the notorious Captain Bligh of the Bounty. The fascination and wide-ranging story is told with full scholarly documentation and many new insights and discoveries.
Author : William Taylor (orientalist, missionary.)
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Missions
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Author : Neil Chambers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1315476045
Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how he developed effective working links with the British Admiralty and with the generation of naval officers who sailed after Cook. Volume 2 1768–1820.
Author : Thomas Herbert Lewin
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 1909
Category : England
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