Table of Contents

The English East India Company and India - Om Prakash
'No Longer Mere Traders': Continuities and Change in the Metropolitan Development of the East India Company 1600-1834 -
East India Company Agency Work in the British Isles, 1700-1800 - James H Thomas
War, Competition and Collaboration: Relations Between the English and Dutch Companies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Femme Gaastra
Frank Submissions: the Company and the Mughals Between Sir Thomas Roe and Sir William Norris - Sanjay Subrahmanyam
The East India Company and the Trade in Non-Metallic Precious Materials from Sir Thomas Roe to Diamond Pitt - Bruce Lenman
Bengkulu: an Anglo-Chinese Partnership - Anthony Farrington
Establishing the Sea Routes to India and China: Stages in the Development of Hydrographical Knowledge - Andrew Cook
Strategy, Policy and Shipbuilding: the Bombay Dockyard, the Indian Navy and Imperial Security in Eastern Seas, 1784-1869 - Andrew Lambert
'An Undiscovered Ocean of Commerce Laid Open': India, Wine and the Emerging Atlantic Economy, 1703-1813 - David Hancock
Contested Relations: the East India Company and its Lascars - Shompa Lahiri
Signs of Commerce: the East India Company and the Patronage of Eighteenth-Century British Art - Geoff Quilley
India and the East India Company in the Public Sphere of Eighteenth-Century Britain - Jeremy Osborn
Afterword: the Legacies of Two Hundred Years of Contact - Peter Marshall

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

Throws light on significant aspects of the Company's history.
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