The Worlds of the East India Company (Revised)

Marc Notes: Published in association with the National Maritime Museum and University of Leicester.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; The English East India Company was one of the most powerful commercial companies ever to have existed. This is a multi-disciplinary history of the company.; Conference proceedings.; Originally published: 2002. Review Quotes: 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 HISTORY Handsomely 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 HISTORY The essays are fresh, rich with data, thoughtfully and dynamically argued, engrossing. JOURNAL of the AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETYPublisher Marketing: Throws light on significant aspects of the Company's history. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY The English East India Company was one of the most powerful commercial companies ever to have existed. It laid the foundations of the British Empire in South Asia and thus lies at the very heart of the interlinked histories of Britain and Asia. This first multi-disciplinary history of the Company to be published commemorates the four-hundredth anniversary of the founding of this unique and extraordinary institution. Historians of art, culture, cartography, empire, politics, the sea, and trade, explore the origins, operation, and influence of the Company as an organisation that remained firmly engaged in maritime commercial activity in many different spheres, even as it acted as a powerful agent of territorial expansion on the Indian subcontinent. H. V. BOWEN is senior lecturer in economic and social history at the University of Leicester; NIGEL RIGBY and MARGARETTE LINCOLN work in the research department of the National Maritime Museum, London. Contributor Bio:  Lincoln, Margarette Dr. Margaret Lincoln was Deputy Director at the National Maritime Museum, 2007 15, and is now a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths. Her books include Representing the Navy: British Sea Power 1750 1815, Navel Wives and Mistresses 1745 1815, and Pirates and British Society, 1680 1730. She is currently working on a peoples history of maritime London, 1768 1802. Contributor Bio:  Rigby, Nigel Rigby is Head of Research at the National Maritime Museum.