The East India Company played a major part in the growth of Britain's empire. Its functions went beyond those of a trading concern and merged military force, government and colonization with economic expansion. This six-volume work covers the history of the Company from its origins in 1599-1600 to its abolition in the wake of the Indian Mutiny of 1857. This comprehensive collection contains reprinted first-hand sources, scholarly surveys, and thematically arranged collections of recent journal articles, offering scholarly coverage of the Company's history, and presenting recent...

These volumes examine trade relations with China from 1635-1842. The classic work on the period 1635-1834 is Hosea Ballou Morse's Chronicles of the East India Company Trading with China, 1635-1834, which attempted to cover the whole of the East India Company's monopolisation of Britain's trade with China from 1634 onwards. However, Morse's coverage of the subject is uneven and, for a fuller view, this treatment of the more complex period of the later 18th and early 19th century dealings between the East India Company and China are usefully complemented in this series by two other major...