The Business of Empire
Subtitle: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 17561833
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780521844772
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Imperialism; History; East India Company; History - General History; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Public Affairs & Administration; History / Great Britain; Commerce; Asia; Colonies; Great Britain
First sentence: In the half-century after 1756 Britain established a large territorial empire in South Asia, and by the beginning of the nineteenth century many contemporaries considered India to have become the richest jewel in the imperial crown.