Imperialism & Orientalism
Subtitle: A Documentary Sourcebook
Contributors: Barbara Harlow (Editor); Mia Carter (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: February 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781557867100
Subjects: African history: c 1500 to c 1900; Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Colonization & independence; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Imperialism; History - General History; History; History: World; Africa; Europe; Middle East; Asia - General; 19th century; Modern - 19th Century; 18th century; ASIA
First sentence: From its inception at the beginning of the seventeenth century, the British East India Company combined military and commercial methods of institutional organizations and administration; what began as a corporate enterprise soon evolved into a massively armed colonial empire.