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Monsoon Traders
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Huw Bowen, Robert J. Blyth, John McAleer
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Free shipping Australia wide Ships from UK supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Hardback, 192 pages | | Other Information: | 50 col, 50 b&w | | Published In: | UK, 31 July 2011 |
The East India Company grew from an Elizabethan trading venture to control half of global trade, leading directly to the British Raj in India and establishing British commercial and imperial interests in China and South East Asia. Monsoon Traders tells the story of the Company over three centuries, covering its origins, the maritime experience, encounters with indigenous peoples, goods traded, wealth created, technology, shipbuilding, conflict and conquest, piracy, rebellion and empire. The book is illustrated throughout with images from the National Maritime Museum in London, which has an important but hitherto under-researched collection of objects relating to the Company, including fine art, objets d'art, maps, charts, navigational instruments, ship models and weapons. Together with expert texts by three leading historians in the field, these combine to tell the story of the East India Company's encounter with the Indian Ocean and the effects this had on both Asian and British societies, people and politics. 'Monsoon Traders' is published to coincide with the opening of a new permanent Asian gallery at the National Maritime Museum. |
Table of ContentsContents: Chapter 1: Beginnings of the East India Compny, 1600-1709 Chapter 2: Asia and the Company: Encounters, diplomacy and conflicts, 1600 - 1700 Chapter 3: The East India Company seaborne empire, 1709-1833 Chapter 4: Conflict ad conquest of the Indian Ocean, 1700-1815 Chapter 5: Britain and the Indian Ocean World, 1830-1900 About the AuthorHuw Bowen is Professor of Modern History, University of Wales, Swansea. Robert Blyth is Curator, Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, London. John McAleer is Curator of 18th-Century Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, London. Contents: Chapter 1: Beginnings of the East India Compny, 1600-1709 Chapter 2: Asia and the Company: Encounters, diplomacy and conflicts, 1600 - 1700 Chapter 3: The East India Company seaborne empire, 1709-1833 Chapter 4: Conflict ad conquest of the Indian Ocean, 1700-1815 Chapter 5: Britain and the Indian Ocean World, 1830-1900
| Publisher: | Scala Publishers Ltd | | ISBN: | 1857596757 |
| EAN: | 9781857596755 | | Dimensions: | 25.68 x 21.23 x 2.44 centimeters (1.10 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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