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).
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 HISTORYHandsomely 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 HISTORYThe essays are fresh, rich with data, thoughtfully and dynamically argued, engrossing. JOURNAL of the AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY
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