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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      09 July 2009
      22 December 2005
      ISBN:
      9780511495724
      9780521844772
      9780521089821
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495724
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.654kg, 320 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 320 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, British History after 1450, Asian Studies, History
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    The Business of Empire assesses the domestic impact of British imperial expansion by analysing what happened in Britain following the East India Company's acquisition of a vast territorial empire in South Asia. Drawing on a mass of hitherto unused material contained in the company's administrative and financial records, the book offers a reconstruction of the inner workings of the company as it made the remarkable transition from business to empire during the late-eighteenth century. H. V. Bowen profiles the company's stockholders and directors and examines how those in London adapted their methods, working practices, and policies to changing circumstances in India. He also explores the company's multifarious interactions with the domestic economy and society, and sheds important new light on its substantial contributions to the development of Britain's imperial state, public finances, military strength, trade and industry. This book will appeal to all those interested in imperial, economic and business history.

    Reviews

    Review of the hardback:'In many places he paints with a broad brush but, using the Company's ledgers, he does so with accuracy and an eye for detail that brings India and China, Britain and Europe, into the board room … Bowen and Cambridge University Press are to be congratulated on producing a very important book.'

    Source: History

    Review of the hardback:'This is a careful and thorough study of an important but often ignored aspect of the history of the East Indian phenomenon.'

    Source: Contemporary Review

    Review of the hardback:'This is a remarkable feat of scholarship that will immediately become an indispensable guide to later history of the British East India Company … Bowen's study provides a wealth of new information on many aspects of the company's operations in Britain in the century after the conquest of Bengal in 1756.'

    Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

    Review of the hardback:'… Bowen … writes in a highly readable jargon-free style. One of the measures of his success in producing such a stimulating work,which will undoubtedly become a 'standard', is the way that reading him provokes so many thoughts of further research possibilities.'

    Source: Asian Affairs

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