British Autobiographies

British Autobiographies

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Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0520361245

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.


Early English Intercourse with Burma, 1587 – 1743

Early English Intercourse with Burma, 1587 – 1743

Author: Daniel G.E. Hall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0429681054

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First published in 1922, this volume constitutes the first attempt yet made to trace the story of English intercourse with Burma from its origins in the 16th century to the middle of the 18th, framed by the period from the opening to the final years of the Syriam factory. Daniel G.E. Hall sought to fill a gap in the literature for students of British enterprise in the East, drawing out the progress of Burma from a commercially unviable backwater to arguably the richest province in resources of the British empire in India.


The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667

The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667

Author: Lt. Col. Sir Richard Carnac Temple

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1317013158

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From the Rawlinson MS. A. 315 in the Bodleian Library, with facsimile of original t.-p.: Itinerarium mundi, that is A memoriall or sundry relations of certain voiages,journeies ettc. ... By: Peter Mundy. With an appendix of extracts from the writings of seventeenth-century travellers to the Levant. Continued in Second Series 35, 45, 46, 55, and 78. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1907.


Polycoloniality

Polycoloniality

Author: Saugata Bhaduri

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-12-30

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9389812569

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Polycoloniality is a study of the activities of non-British European powers and players - primarily the Portuguese, the Dutch, the French, the Danish, the 'Germans' (representatives of the Austrian and Prussian empires), the Swedish and the Greek - in Bengal from the late 13th to the early 19th century, and their role in shaping Bengal's brush with 'colonial modernity' prior to, and possibly more foundationally than, the English. Much of the traditional historiography of colonialism, in South Asia in general and Bengal in particular, and the resultant postcolonial commonsense, is woefully mononational, with the focus being almost exclusively on England and its colonial exploits. This is obviously factually incorrect and inadequate, with the multiple European nations named above having had simultaneous colonial contact with Bengal from the 16th century, and there having been a steady flow of Europeans, primarily Italians, to Bengal from at least the late 13th century. More importantly, it is these multiple European players, rather than the English, who can be credited with the setting up of the first cosmopolitan cities in Bengal, its first colleges and universities, the beginnings of print culture in Bengali, the foundations of the modern linguistic, literary and cultural registers of Bengal, the first instances of social and political reforms, etc. Apart from an elaboration of all the above, can Polycoloniality, or a re-look at Bengal's colonial history through the lens of plurality, also offer a template to understand the multinational forms of current new-imperialism more fittingly than postcolonial commonsense can?


Technology and European Overseas Enterprise

Technology and European Overseas Enterprise

Author: Michael Adas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 1351895788

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Technological innovation was crucial to the process of European expansion: advances in astronomy and navigation and changes in weaponry all contributed to the emergence of European commercial enclaves in Africa and Asia, and the conquest of the Americas. This volume illustrates the ways in which these European technological advantages shaped the expansion of the global system, whilst making clear that Western technology both adapted models from other cultures and was at times seriously challenged by them. In the arts of war, the West had much less of a technological edge over its Asian adversaries than is usually believed. Substantially dealing with the issue of technology transfer between the world and Europe, these studies underline the interactive nature of the process.


The Worlds of the East India Company

The Worlds of the East India Company

Author: H. V. Bowen

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1843830736

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A collection of essays on the history and relationships of the East India Company from 1600 to the early 1800s.


Rule by Numbers

Rule by Numbers

Author: U. Kalpagam

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2014-08-20

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0739189360

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This book examines aspects of the production of statistical knowledge as part of colonial governance in India using Foucault’s ideas of “governmentality.” The modern state is distinctive for its bureaucratic organization, official procedures, and accountability that in the colonial context of governing at a distance instituted a vast system of recordation bearing semblance to and yet differing markedly from the Victorian administrative state. The colonial rule of difference that shaped liberal governmentality introduced new categories of rule that were nested in the procedures and records and could be unraveled from the archive of colonial governance. Such an exercise is attempted here for certain key epistemic categories such as space, time, measurement, classification and causality that have enabled the constitution of modern knowledge and the social scientific discourses of “economy,” “society,” and “history.” The different chapters engage with how enumerative technologies of rule led to proliferating measurements and classifications as fields and objects came within the purview of modern governance rendering both statistical knowledge and also new ways of acting on objects and new discourses of governance and the nation. The postcolonial implications of colonial governmentality are examined with respect to both planning techniques for attainment of justice and the role of information in the constitution of neoliberal subjects.