The East India Company, 1600–1858 A Short History with Documents
Year: 2017 Language: english Author: Ian Barrow Genre: History Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages + text layer Pages count: 189 Description: In existence for 258 yean,rhe English Ease India Company ran a complex, highly integratedglobal tradingnetwork.It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for Chinas nineteenth -century addiction. In India it expanded from a few small coastal settlements to govern territories that far exceeded the British Isles in extent andpopulation.It mintedcoins inits name, establishedlaw courts and prisons, andprosecuted wars with one of the worlds largest armies. Over rime, 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 modem world. In clear, engaging prose, Ian Barrow sets the rise and fail 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 fromeighteen primary documents illustrate rhe main themes and ideas discussedin the text. Maps,illustrations, a glossary, and a chrоnоlogy are also included. Additional info: My other giveaways: https://seatracker.me/tracker....id=13371#results
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The East India Company, 1600–1858 A Short History with Documents
Language: english
Author: Ian Barrow
Genre: History
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages + text layer
Pages count: 189
Description: In existence for 258 yean,rhe English Ease India Company ran a complex, highly integratedglobal tradingnetwork.It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea
Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for Chinas nineteenth -century addiction. In India it expanded from a few small coastal settlements to govern territories that far exceeded the British Isles in extent andpopulation.It mintedcoins inits name, establishedlaw courts and prisons, andprosecuted wars with one of the worlds largest armies. Over rime, 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 modem world.
In clear, engaging prose, Ian Barrow sets the rise and fail 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 fromeighteen primary documents illustrate rhe main themes and ideas discussedin the text. Maps,illustrations, a glossary, and a chrоnоlogy are also included.
Additional info: My other giveaways: https://seatracker.me/tracker....id=13371#results
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