Table of Contents

East India Merchants: Clyde to Calcutta, 1823-1862 The British India Steam Navigation Company, 1856-1870 Extending the System: Australia, Indonesia and Arabian Waters, 1862-1870 Business Networking, 1860-1870 The Suez Canal, India and the Netherlands Indies, 1869-1882 The Persian Gulf, the Zanzibar Mail Contracts, and the London-Gulf Line, 1869-1882 Eastern Africa, 1872-1882 'Aristocratic Capitalism', Railways and the Central African Project, 1876-1882 Family, Group and Network, 1870-1882 The Failure of the City of Glasgow Bank, 1878-1882 The Australian Opening, 1880-1893 India: Competition, Collaboration and Consolidation, 1882-1893 Indonesia: Nationalism in Dutch Colonial Policy, 1882-1890 Imperial Politics: Egypt and the Scramble for Africa, 1882-1886 Interludes: a Scottish Election, an African Expedition and a Persian Railway, 1885-1887 A False Dawn: East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean, 1888-1890 The Fall of the Imperial British East Africa Company, 1890-1893 Maritime Enterprise and Empire

About the Author

J. FORBES MUNRO is emeritus professor of international economic history, University of Glasgow.

Reviews

A richly textured analysis of Sir William Mackinnon's Indian Ocean-based business network. [...] Not only essential reading for scholars interested in nineteenth-century maritime history, it is also indispensable for students of business history.
*THE NORTHERN MARINER*

Massive and definitive. Gives character and insight into...the character and operation of nineteenth-century international business and politics.
*INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW*

This book is a joy to read and represents economic history at its best.. [An] excellent book.
*EH.NET*

A superb book that will be the standard on Mackinnon for decades to come.
*CHOICE*

The book is not only well-researched but written in an easy style which makes its romp through almost a century a pleasure to undertake.
*BUSINESS HISTORY*

A first rate study of the business career of one of Scotland's leading Victorian entrepreneurs.
*ALBION*