East India Company and the Provinces in the Eighteenth Century. Vol 2. Captains, agents, and servants - a gallery of East India Company portraits

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Deals with the activities of the East India Co in provincial England, especially southern England, in nine wide ranging chapters. Focuses especially on the Company's local agents; on its shipbuilding requirements; and on its current and retired personnel outside London. Chapters include: 'Voyaging through strange seas - some eighteenth century East India Company captains examined'; 'The Company, commanders and connections - the experience of the Wordsworth family'; 'From East India captain to provincial wine merchant - the curious voyage of John Wyche, 1729-1805'; 'East India Company agency work in the British Isles in the eighteenth century'; 'Provincial agency work and the East India Company in the eighteenth century - some evidence from Kent'; 'The East India Company agents in Falmouth, 1760-1815'; 'Provincial shipbuilding and the East India Company in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - the contribution of Stockton on Tees, Itchenor and Ipswich'; 'Commodities, consumption and contact - occidental and oriental encounters, 1700-1820'; 'The provinces, 'servants' and the East India Company - the experience of eighteenth century Hampshire'