The first multi-disciplinary history of the English East India Company, one of the most powerful commercial companies ever to have existed. Throws light on significant aspects of the Company's history. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY The English East India Company was one of the most powerful commercial companies ever to have existed. It laid thefoundations of the British Empire in South Asia and thus lies at the very heart of the interlinked histories of Britain and Asia. This first multi-disciplinary history of the Company to be published commemorates the four-hundredth anniversary of the founding of this unique and extraordinary institution. Historians of art, culture, cartography, empire, politics, the sea, and trade, explore the origins, operation, and influence of the Company as an organisation that remained firmly engaged in maritime commercial activity in many different spheres, even as it acted as a powerful agent of territorial expansion on the Indian subcontinent. H.V. BOWEN is senior lecturer ineconomic and social history at the University of Leicester; NIGEL RIGBY and MARGARETTE LINCOLN work in the research department of the National Maritime Museum, London.

About the Author
Andrew Lambert is Professor of War Studies at King's College, London and one of Britain's foremost maritime and naval historians. GEOFF QUILLEY is Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex, specializing in the relation of British and western visual culture to empire and global expansion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was previously Curator of Fine Art at the National Maritime Museum, London, and has written and edited numerous books, including Empire to Nation: Art, History and the Visualization of Maritime Britain, 1768-1829 (Yale University Press 2011).

Reviews
This collection of fourteen excellent essays.provides us with a very comprehensive overview of the breadth and importance of the East India Company. * WORK BOAT WORLD *
Everyone with scholarly interests in trading companies will enjoy the contents. * JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY *
A useful reference book [that] reveals the richness and breadth of Indian studies. * CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY *
Handsomely produced.[with] a number of superb black-and-white and colour reproductions of contemporary prints and ships models. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY *
Throws light on significant aspects of the Company's history. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY *
The essays are fresh, rich with data, thoughtfully and dynamically argued, engrossing. * JOURNAL of the AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY *



Book Information
ISBN 9781843830733
Author H.V. Bowen
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint The Boydell Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd