ISBN:
9781108483957
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9781108705646
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 293 Seiten
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Karten
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24 cm
Edition:
First paperback edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Veevers, David The origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600-1750
Keywords:
East India Company
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Geschichte 1600-1750
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Kulturkontakt
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Soziale Integration
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Asien
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East India Company / History
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Corporations, British / Asia / History
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British / Asia / History
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Asia / Foreign relations / Great Britain
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Great Britain / Foreign relations / Asia
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Great Britain / Commerce / Asia / History
;
Asia / Commerce / Great Britain / History
;
Asien
;
East India Company
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Soziale Integration
;
Geschichte 1600-1750
Abstract:
"This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural interactions between servants of the English East India Company and the Asian communities and states they came into contact with, revealing how it was this integration of Europeans into non-European economies, states and societies which was central to British imperial and commercial success rather than national or mercantilist enterprise. As their servants skilfully adapted to this rich and complex environment, the East India Company became enfranchised by the eighteenth century with a breadth of privileges and rights - from governing sprawling metropolises to trading customs-free. In emphasising the Asian genesis of the British Empire, this book sheds new light on the foreign frameworks of power which fuelled the expansion of Global Britain in the early modern world."
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 274-285
DOI:
10.1017/9781108669344