The Honourable Company - A History of the English East India Company
Year: 1991 Language: english Author: John Keay Genre: History ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-007-39554-5 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages + text layer Pages count: 499 Description: Every overseas empire had to begin somewhere. A flag had to be raised, territory claimed, and settlement attempted. In the dimly perceived conduct of a small band of bedraggled pioneers, stiff with scurvy and with sand in their hose, it may be difficult to determine to what extent these various criteria were met. There might, for instance, be a case for locating the genesis of the British Empire in the West Indies, Virginia, or New England. But there is a less obvious and much stronger candidate. The seed from which grew the most extensive empire the world has ever seen was sown on Pulo Run in the Banda Islands at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago. As the island of Runnymede is to British constitutional history, so the island of Run is to British imperial history. Additional info: My other giveaways: https://seatracker.me/tracker....id=13371#results
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The Honourable Company - A History of the English East India Company
Language: english
Author: John Keay
Genre: History
ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-007-39554-5
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages + text layer
Pages count: 499
Description: Every overseas empire had to begin somewhere. A flag had to be raised, territory claimed, and settlement attempted. In the dimly perceived conduct of a small band of bedraggled pioneers, stiff with scurvy and with sand in their hose, it may be difficult to determine to what extent these various criteria were met. There might, for instance, be a case for locating the genesis of the British Empire in the West Indies, Virginia, or New England. But there is a less obvious and much stronger candidate. The seed from which grew the most extensive empire the world has ever seen was sown on Pulo Run in the Banda Islands at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago. As the island of Runnymede is to British constitutional history, so the island of Run is to British imperial history.
Additional info: My other giveaways: https://seatracker.me/tracker....id=13371#results
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