Selling empire : India in the making of Britain and America, 1600-1830 /

Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India--both as an idea and a place--to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eacott, Jonathan (Author)
Corporate Author: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (sponsoring body.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "Those Curious Manufactures That Empire Affords": India Goods and Early English Expansion
  • An Imperial Compromise: The Calico Acts, the Company, and the Atlantic Colonies
  • Enforcement, Aesthetics, and Revenue
  • A Company to Fear: India and the American Revolution
  • Empires, Interlopers, Corruption, and America's Early India Trade
  • Remapping Production, Rethinking Monopolies
  • The French Wars and the Refashioning of Empire
  • Conversions
  • Conclusion
  • Index.