The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833

This volume is the first detailed study of what happened in Britain when the East India Company acquired a vast territorial empire in South Asia. Drawing on a mass of hitherto unused material contained in the Company's administrative and financial records, the book offers a reconstruction of the inner workings of the Company as it made the remarkable transition from business to empire during the late-eighteenth century. Huw Bowen profiles the company's stock holders and directors and examines how those in London adapted their methods, working practices, and policies to changing circumstances in India.

Author: H. V. Bowen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/22/2005
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.04w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780521844772

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2006 pg. 529

About the Author
Bowen, H. V.: - H. V. Bowen is Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester. His previous books include Elites, Enterprise, and the Making of the Briish Overseas Empire, 1688-1775 (1996); and War and British Society, 1688-1815 (1998).

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