'The new economic history and the business records of the East India Company' in P L Cottrell & D H Aldcroft (eds), Shipping, Trade and Commerce. Essays in memory of Ralph Davis
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- Author(s) Chaudhuri, K N
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1982
- Pages pp45-59
- Publisher Leicester University Press
- Place Published Leicester
Topics:
- Name Historiography & methodology
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with the business related records of the East India Co and their value for research but the difficulties in their analysis on account of their complexity. The potential of computer technology for the task and the implication of this for research methodology, set within the context of 'new economic history'