Monsoon Traders. The maritime world of the East India Company
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- Author(s) Bowen, H V, John McAleer & Robert J Blyth
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2011
- Pages 192pp; illus
- Publisher Scala
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Collected essays of the three authors which comprise: 'Uncertain beginnings. The East India Company, 1600-1709'; ''Places far remote... cause much expectation'. Encounters and diplomacy in Asia, 1600-1800'; ''The most illustrious and most flourishing commercial organisation that ever existed'. The East India Company's seaborne empire, 1709-1833'; 'In trade as in warfare. Conflict and conquest in the Indian Ocean, 1600-1815'; ''Smoke, and flame, and thunder'. The Company, its demise and its legacies, c1830-70'. Together provides a wide view of the company - 'covering its origins, the maritime experience, encounters with indigenous peoples, goods traded, wealth created, technology, shipbuilding, conflict and conquest, piracy, rebellion and empire'