Author: Ian Barrow
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624665985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China’s nineteenth-century addiction. In India it expanded from a few small coastal settlements to govern territories that far exceeded the British Isles in extent and population. It minted coins in its name, established law courts and prisons, and prosecuted wars with one of the world’s largest armies. Over time, the Company developed a pronounced and aggressive colonialism that laid the foundation for Britain’s Eastern empire. A study of the Company, therefore, is a study of the rise of the modern world. In clear, engaging prose, Ian Barrow sets the rise and fall of the Company into political, economic, and cultural contexts and explains how and why the Company was transformed from a maritime trading entity into a territorial colonial state. Excerpts from eighteen primary documents illustrate the main themes and ideas discussed in the text. Maps, illustrations, a glossary, and a chronology are also included.
The East India Company, 1600–1858
The oration against Leptines
Author: Demosthenes
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Rhyme? and Reason?
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: New York : Macmillan and Company
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Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Publisher: New York : Macmillan and Company
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Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Nature
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Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Pages : 888
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Cicero's Second Philippic
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Category : Oratory, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category : Oratory, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Solutions of the Cambridge Senate-house Problems and Riders for the Year 1875
Author: Sir George Greenhill
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Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Languages : en
Pages : 318
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The story of Achilles from Homers̓ Iliad
Author: Homer
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Category : Achilles (Greek mythology)
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Category : Achilles (Greek mythology)
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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A Series of First Lessons in Greek
Author: John Williams White
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Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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The oration against Leptines, ed. by J.R. King
Author: Demosthenes
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Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Key to Exercises in Euclid
Author: Isaac Todhunter
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Category : Euclid's Elements
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Category : Euclid's Elements
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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