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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"English East India Company"”.
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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"
For much 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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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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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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Subjecthood and Sovereignty among the ‘Real’ and ‘Imagined’ Pirates of a ‘Golden Age’, 1690–1705
… a reconceptualisation of European piracy in the Indian Ocean through an exploration of piracy’s relationship with sovereignty and subjecthood. Traditionally interpreted through Euro-Atlantic frameworks, piracy’s steady shift during this period, both legally and in public meaning, towards hostis …
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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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Art in between Empires: Visual Culture and Artistic Knowledge in Late Mughal Delhi, 1748-1857
… of Mughal rule and the administration of the English East India Company in North India, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. It brings a hitherto unrecognized period of artistic accomplishment to light and studies the transformations within painting culture in the …
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Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706): A Jesuit Pharmacist at the Frontiers of Colonial Empires
… of knowledge exchange that spanned the Spanish, English, Dutch and Portuguese colonial empires. My main concern is Kamel’s participation in the global commerce of medical and natural knowledge. Seeking to decentre previous narratives of the mobility of early modern knowledge and recover agencies …