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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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
[2016]
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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.