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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"East India Company"”.
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British Politics, Imperial Ideology, and East India Company Reform, 1773-1784
… analyses the various factors behind the British East India Company’s metamorphosis from a mercantile corporation into a semi-privatised imperial agency in the crucial period between Lord North’s Regulating Act in 1773 and Pitt’s India Act of 1784. To untangle these factors, this dissertation …
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The East India Company in the Persian Gulf: The View from Bandar Abbas
… represents a vital, yet unexplored region of the East India Company’s sphere of influence. By considering the Gulf as an important space of interaction between the Company and successive Persian regimes, a new relationship can be revealed. From the Company’s foundational action in assisting Shah …
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The Residents of the British East India Company at Indian royal courts, c. 1798-1818
… empire. Yet this focus on ‘British’ India overshadows the very different history of nearly half the Indian subcontinent, which was still ruled by nominally independent monarchs. This dissertation traces the increasingly asymmetrical relationships between the East India Company and …
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The Dutch East India Company and the Straits of Malacca, 1700-1784 : trade and politics in the eighteenth century
Since merchants first sailed eastwards from the ports of the Indian Ocean, the Malay Archipelago has been one of the world's busiest commercial highways. As the volume of shipping from both East and West increased, many foreigners passed through the area, leaving a more or less permanent mark, …
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The Dutch East India Company and the Straits of Malacca, 1700-1784 : trade and politics in the eighteenth century
Since merchants first sailed eastwards from the ports of the Indian Ocean, the Malay Archipelago has been one of the world's busiest commercial highways. As the volume of shipping from both East and West increased, many foreigners passed through the area, leaving a more or less permanent mark, …
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Art in India's 'Age of Reform': Amateurs, Print Culture, and the Transformation of the East India Company, c.1813-1858
Two images of British India persist in the modern imagination: first, an eighteenth-century world of incipient multiculturalism, of sexual adventure amidst the hazy smoke of hookah pipes; and second, the grandiose imperialism of the Victorian Raj, its vast public buildings and stiff upper lip. No …
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Places of discourse and dialogue : a study in the material culture of the Cape during the rule of the Dutch East India Company
… subjectivities structured for them by Dutch East India Company (VOC) documents. Together the latter constituted a discourse of domination against which the anomalous group, in the process of establishing new identities for themselves, developed a discourse of resistance. Since the VOC …
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The development of the port and harbour of Table Bay with special reference to the period 1825-1860.
… briefly to harbour developments under the Dutch East India Company, while Professor Marous Arkin's work on the English East India Company, John Company at the Cape, a history of the agency under Pringle (1794-1815) based on a study of the Cape of Good Hope Factory Records, gave no attention to …
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John Company at the Cape : a history of the agency under Pringle (1794-1815), based on a study of the "Cape of Good Hope factory records"
… of its long and influential career, the English East India Company (familiarly known as “John Company”) was not directly concerned with the Cape of Good Hope, and that Colony held no more than a very minor place on the fringes of its commercial affairs.
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Imperial Splendor: Diamonds, Commodity Chains, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
… (Rhodes House, Oxford), the records of the East India Company (British Library), travelogues of Britons in Brazil, and records on aesthetics and natural history consulted at the Natural History Museum Archives and the Archive of Art and Design at the V&A Museum (London).
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East India patronage and the political management of Scotland 1720-1774
… sets out to examine and explain the use of India patronage in the government of Scotland from 1720 to 1774. The 1707 Act of Union created a complex and uncertain Scottish political world. Widespread resentment at the 1707 'betrayal' was kept simmering by pro-Jacobite sentiments and …
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Households of the Cape, 1750 to 1850 : inventories and the archaeological record
… for investigation: the colony under the Dutch East India Company in the 18th century, twenty transitional years of interim British and Netherlands governments between 1795 and 1815, and the Cape as a British colony after 1815. An historical archaeological approach was applied to material …
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Violence, Sovereignty, and the Making of Criminal Law in Colonial India, 1857-1914
… law, sovereignty and violence in colonial India in the period 1857-1914. From murder, to corporal punishment, to jubilee amnesty, this thesis highlights two gaps within the scholarship of nineteenth-century Indian legal and political history. Firstly, that histories of colonial law have …
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The private trade of the British in West Sumatra 1735-1770
The English East India Company first established a permanent post on the West Coast of Sumatra in 1685, in order to ensure continued supplies of Indonesian pepper after the Dutch had effectively excluded the British from the pepper trade of West Java by expelling them from Bantam in 1682. The …
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Rare Earth: Gemstones, Geohistory, and Commercial Geography c. 1600-1750
… precious stones were mined in South and Southeast Asia. Europeans had long associated these parts of the world with mineral wealth, but it was not until the establishment of direct maritime connections to Indian Ocean trade in the early modern period that European scholars were able to …
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"""I am the Devil's own"": Crime, class, and identity in the seventeenth century Dutch East Indies"
… ethnic identities on inhabitants of the Dutch East Indies during the period between the promulgation of the first independent Dutch East India Company (VOC) legal code and the restructuring of the criminal courts in 1689 and 1690. Using the case of the prosecution of Nicolaes Schagen as a point …
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The Shiraz Controversy: Henry Martyn, Crucicentric Conversionism, and Islam 1811–12
… the New Testament in Shiraz, Persia, in 1811–12, East India Company chaplain Henry Martyn (1781–1812) also composed three Persian tracts—the Shiraz Controversy—which presented Evangelical Christianity to Muslim scholars. Although contemporary Muslim scholars and the Persian shah read Martyn’s …
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The transportation of convicts from the Madras Presidency to the Straits Settlements, 1789 - 1860
… Madras Presidency to penal colonies across the Indian Ocean, particularly the Straits Settlements, between 1789 and 1860. It discusses the transportation of Indian convicts across the Indian Ocean as a carceral network, understanding it as a set of connections and interactions across the Indian …
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