Archives of Empire
Subtitle: Volume I. From The East India Company to the Suez Canal (Archives of Empire)
Contributors: Barbara Harlow (Editor); Barbara Harlow (Editor); Mia Carter (Editor)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 802
ISBN-13: 9780822331643
Subjects: Imperialism; World history; History - General History; Europe - General; History; History: World; British Empire; United Kingdom, Great Britain; World - General; History, European; Literary Studies/British Liter; Postcolonial Studies; Colonies; Asia - India & South Asia; Great Britain; Sources
First sentence: FROM ITS INCEPTION at the beginning of the seventeenth century, the British East India Company combined military and commercial methods of institutional organization and administration; what began as a corporate enterprise soon evolved into a massively armed colonial empire.