The Administration of the East India Company
Author: Sir John William Kaye
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 734
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Author: Sir John William Kaye
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 734
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Claudius James Rich
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Published: 1818
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sanjay Kumar Singh
Publisher: Department of Library and Information Science, Gauhati University
Published: 2019-01-01
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 8190870874
DOWNLOAD EBOOK50 Years of LIS Education in North East India: Published on the Occasion of Concluding Session of the Golden Jubilee Celebration, DLISc., Gauhati University
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-11-12
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 1526634015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India ... A book of beauty' – Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
Author: Ian Barrow
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2017-02-14
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1624665985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Claudius James Rich
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Published: 1818
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raymond Jonas
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-11-15
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 0674062795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable-it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast doubt upon an unshakable certainty of the age-that sooner or later all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans. This event opened a breach that would lead, in the aftermath of world war fifty years later, to the continent's painful struggle for freedom from colonial rule. Raymond Jonas offers the first comprehensive account of this singular episode in modern world history. The narrative is peopled by the ambitious and vain, the creative and the coarse, across Africa, Europe, and the Americas-personalities like Menelik, a biblically inspired provincial monarch who consolidated Ethiopia's throne; Taytu, his quick-witted and aggressive wife; and the Swiss engineer Alfred Ilg, the emperor's close advisor. The Ethiopians' brilliant gamesmanship and savvy public relations campaign helped roll back the Europeanization of Africa. Figures throughout the African diaspora immediately grasped the significance of Adwa, Menelik, and an independent Ethiopia. Writing deftly from a transnational perspective, Jonas puts Adwa in the context of manifest destiny and Jim Crow, signaling a challenge to the very concept of white dominance. By reopening seemingly settled questions of race and empire, the Battle of Adwa was thus a harbinger of the global, unsettled century about to unfold.
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 888
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 464
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Thornton
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 1032
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