Download or read book Geographies of an Imperial Power written by Jeremy Black and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography as an underpinning of British imperialism. “The breadth and depth of knowledge on display in this book are impressive.” —Historical Geography From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration of Britain in the 18th century, Jeremy Black explores the interconnected roles of power and geography in the creation of a global empire. Geography was at the heart of Britain’s expansion into India, its response to uprisings in Scotland and America, and its revolutionary development of railways. Geographical dominance was reinforced as newspapers stoked the fires of xenophobia and defined the limits of cosmopolitan Europe as compared to the “barbarism” beyond. Geography provided a system of analysis and classification which gave Britain political, cultural, and scientific sovereignty. Black considers geographical knowledge not just as a tool for creating a shared cultural identity but also as a key mechanism in the formation of one of the most powerful and far-reaching empires the world has ever known. “This is an engaging, wide-ranging, clearly written, well-informed book . . . Recommended.” —Choice
Download or read book The East India Company and the Provinces in the Eighteenth Century Captains agents and servants written by James H. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to examine East India Company's activities and importance at a provincial level in eighteenth century through the lives and experiences of those who were employed by this multi-faceted business concern. This book draws on manuscripts from twenty-seven different archive repositories and an array of printed primary and secondary sources.
Download or read book The Mariner s Mirror Bibliography for written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Knox an Eighteenth Century Colonial Agent Pamphleteer and Civil Servant written by Franklin B. Wickwire and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Bibliography of Historical Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verzeichnis der exzerpierton zeitschriften: 1926, p. [XXXI]-LXVII.
Download or read book The illustrated history of the British empire in India and the East to the suppression of the Sepoy mutiny in 1859 With a continuation by another author to the end of 1878 written by Edward Henry Nolan and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East from the Earliest Times to the Suppression of the Sepoy Mutiny in 1859 written by Edward Henry Nolan and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breaking Into the Monopoly written by Yukihisa Kumagai and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Breaking into the Monopoly, Yukihisa Kumagai examines how the commercial pressure groups of Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester organised campaigns to end the British East India Company’s monopoly from 1812-1813 and 1829-1833.
Download or read book The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East written by E. H. Nolan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sessional Papers of the Eighteenth Century written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Agency of Empire Connections and Strategies in French Overseas Expansion 1686 1746 written by Elisabeth Heijmans and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Agency of Empire: Connections and Strategies in French Expansion (1686-1746) Elisabeth Heijmans places directors and their connections at the centre of the developments and operations of French overseas companies. The focus on directors’ decisions and networks challenges the conception of French overseas companies as highly centralized and controlled by the state. Through the cases of companies operating in Pondicherry (Coromandel Coast) and Ouidah (Bight of Benin), Elisabeth Heijmans demonstrates the participation of actors not only in Paris but also in provinces, ports and trading posts in the French expansion. The analysis brings to the fore connections across imperial, cultural and religious boundaries in order to diverge from traditional national narratives of the French early modern empire.
Download or read book The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East written by Edward Henry Nolan and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eighteenth century British Books a Subject Catalogue written by G. Averley and published by Folkestone, Eng. : Dawson. This book was released on 1979 with total page 1648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Travels of Dean Mahomet written by Dean Mahomet and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland, and England. Emigrating to Britain and living there for over half a century, Mahomet started what was probably the first Indian restaurant in England and then enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner of "oriental" medicine, i.e., therapeutic massage and herbal steam bath, in London and the seaside resort of Brighton. This is a fascinating account of life in late eighteenth-century India—the first book written in English by an Indian—framed by a mini-biography of a remarkably versatile entrepreneur. Travels presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole. Connoisseurs of unusual travel narratives, historians of England, Ireland, and British India, as well as literary scholars of autobiography and colonial discourse will find much in this book. But it also offers an engaging biography of a resourceful, multidimensional individual.
Download or read book A History of India written by Thomas Keightley and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the second congress Canadian Ethnology Society Volume 2 written by Jim Freedman and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the Second Annual Conference of the Canadian Ethnology Society held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1975 are offered in two volumes. The first volume includes those which were delivered in the “Myth and Culture” and “The Theory of Markedness in Social Relations and Language” sessions. This second contains those from the “Contemporary Trends in Caribbean Ethnology”, “African Ethnology”, “Anthropology in Canada”, “The Crees and the Geese”, “Early Mercantile Enterprises in Anthropological Perspectives” and “Volunteered Papers” sessions.
