This book employs a wide range of perspectives to demonstrate how the East India Company facilitated cross-cultural interactions between the English and various groups in South Asia between 1600 to 1857 and how these interactions transformed important features of both British and South Asian history. Rather than viewing the Company as an organization projecting its authority from London to India, the volume shows how the Company s history and its broader historical significance can best be understood by appreciating the myriad ways in which these interactions shaped the Company s story and...
This book employs a wide range of perspectives to demonstrate how the East India Company facilitated cross-cultural interactions between the Englis...
In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds the transatlantic slave trade in politics, not economic forces, analyzing the ideological arguments of the RAC and its opponents in Parliament and in public debate. Ultimately, Pettigrew powerfully reasons that freedom became the rallying cry for those who wished to participate in the slave trade...
In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natur...
