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A business of state : commerce, politics, and the birth of the East India Company
A Business of State reveals how the English state took an active role in the creation and functioning of the East India Company in the early years of its existence, and, reciprocally, how institutions like the Company helped create the early Stuart state. To understand how the Company operated, the author delves into the political life of the body as well as constructing a richly detailed account of the interactions between the Company and the regime. Viewing politics and political engagement through the lens of the Company exposes a version of the English polity in which Company members regularly appeared before the monarch and privy council, saw themselves as active agents in government, and used the tools of public appeal to sway both Company and state policies. In return, monarch and privy council promoted and protected the Company, depended on Company expertise and resources, and shaped state policy objectives in response to Company needs and requirements.-- Provided by publisher
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La anarquía
En 1765, la Compañía de las Indias Orientales derrocó al joven emperador mogol y puso en su lugar un gobierno controlado por mercaderes ingleses que extorsionaba impuestos merced a su ejército privado. Fue este el momento que señaló la transformación de la Compañía de las Indias Orientales en algo muy distinto a una empresa: una corporación internacional pasó a ser un agresivo poder colonial. Durante el siguiente medio siglo, la Compañía continuó extendiendo su poder hasta que prácticamente toda la India al sur de Delhi era controlada desde un despacho londinense.
William Dalrymple, autor del aclamado El retorno de un rey, cuenta en La anarquía. La Compañía de las Indias orientales y el expolio de la India cómo el Imperio mogol, que había dominado el comercio y la manufactura mundiales, y que poseía recursos casi ilimitados, se derrumbó y fue reemplazado por una corporación multinacional enclavada a miles de kilómetros al otro lado del mundo.
Una corporación que respondía a unos accionistas que jamás habían estado en la India y que no tenían la menor idea del país cuya riqueza les reportaba jugosos dividendos. A partir de fuentes inéditas, Dalrymple narra la historia de la Compañía de las Indias Orientales como nunca se ha hecho: una historia sobre los devastadores resultados que puede tener el abuso de poder por parte de una gran corporación, y que resuena amenazadoramente familiar en nuestro siglo XXI de todopoderosas empresas transnacionales.
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Encounters on the Opposite Coast
In Encounters on the Opposite Coast Markus Vink offers a detailed narrative of the first half century of cross-cultural interaction between the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Nayaka state of Madurai in southeast India (c. 1645-1690).
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Goddess of fire
Moorti--widowed at just 17 and about to be burned on her husband's funeral pyre--is saved from the fire by a mysterious Englishman. Taken to safety and given employment by her saviour Job Charnock, Moorti--renamed Maria--must embrace her new life among the English traders. But the intelligent and talented Maria is not content to be a servant for the rest of her life, and seizes the opportunity to learn English. This, she hopes, will bring her closer to the kind and gentle Job.
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Between monopoly and free trade : the English East India Company, 1600-1757
The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm's employ. Exploring trade network dynamics, decision-making processes, and ports and organizational context, Emily Erikson demonstrates why the English East India Company was a dominant force in the expansion of trade between Europe and Asia.
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Writing self, writing empire : Chandar Bhan Brahman and the cultural world of the Indo-Persian state secretary
\"Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or Munshi, Chandar Bhan 'Brahman' (d. c.1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan's life spanned the reigns of four different emperors, Akbar (1556-1605), Jahangir (1605-1627), Shah Jahan (1628-1658), and Aurangzeb 'Alamgir (1658-1707), the last of the 'Great Mughals' whose courts dominated the culture and politics of the subcontinent at the height of the empire's power, territorial reach, and global influence\"--Provided by publisher.
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The East India Company and the natural world
\"The East India Company and the Natural World is the first work to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The EIC both contributed to and recorded environmental change during the first era of globalization. From the small island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, to peninsula India and outposts in South and Southeast Asia, the Company presence profoundly altered the environment by introducing plants and animals, felling forests, and redirecting rivers. The threats of famine and disease encouraged experiments with agriculture and the recording of the virtues of medicinal plants. The EIC records of the weather, the soils, and the flora provide modern climate scientists with invaluable data. The contributors - drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - use the lens of the Company to illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857.\" -- Provided by publisher.
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