East India Patronage And The British State
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East India Patronage And The British State
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Author : George McGilvary
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2008-07-30
East India Patronage And The British State written by George McGilvary and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-30 with History categories.
The Act of Union in 1707 brought with it a new 'Great Britain'. How did the English bind the Scottish elites to the new British State, ensuring the stability of this new power in the face of possible Jacobite and international threat? From 1725 a patronage system existed in Britain enabling government ministries to use posts in the East India Company and its shipping to secure political majorities in Scotland and Westminster. Scots went to India as Company servants, ships' crews, soldiers and free-merchants, bringing back exceptional wealth to a land starved of money and providing for commercial and industrial advances throughout Great Britain. The importance of the system of patronage which enabled so many Scots to go to the East has not hitherto been recognised and cannot be overestimated. It bound the Scots with their English neighbours in business, political management and empire, with consequences going far beyond the eighteenth century.
East India Patronage And The British State
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Author : George K. McGilvary
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
East India Patronage And The British State written by George K. McGilvary and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
British Art And The East India Company
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Author : Geoff Quilley
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2020
British Art And The East India Company written by Geoff Quilley and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Art categories.
Examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art, demonstrating how art and related forms of culture were closely tied to commerce and the rise of the commercial state. This book examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when a new "school" of British art was in its formative stages with the foundation of exhibiting societies and the Royal Academy in 1768. It focuses on the Company's patronage, promotion and uses of art, both in Britain and in India and the Far East, and how the Company and its trade with the East were represented visually, through maritime imagery, landscape, genre painting and print-making. It also considers how, for artists such as William Hodges and Arthur William Devis, the East India Company, and its provision of a wealthy market in British India, provided opportunities for career advancement, through alignment with Company commercial principles. In this light, the book's main concern is to address the conflicted and ambiguous nature of art produced in the service of a corporation that was the "scandal of empire" for most of its existence, and how this has shaped and distorted our understanding of the history of British art in relation to the concomitant rise of Britain as a self-consciously commercial and maritime nation, whose prosperity relied upon global expansion, increasing colonialism and the development of mercantile organisations.
The Business Of Empire
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Author : H. V. Bowen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-12-22
The Business Of Empire written by H. V. Bowen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-22 with History categories.
The Business of Empire assesses the domestic impact of British imperial expansion by analysing what happened in Britain following the East India Company's acquisition of a vast territorial empire in South Asia. Drawing on a mass of hitherto unused material contained in the company's administrative and financial records, the book offers a reconstruction of the inner workings of the company as it made the remarkable transition from business to empire during the late-eighteenth century. H. V. Bowen profiles the company's stockholders and directors and examines how those in London adapted their methods, working practices, and policies to changing circumstances in India. He also explores the company's multifarious interactions with the domestic economy and society, and sheds important new light on its substantial contributions to the development of Britain's imperial state, public finances, military strength, trade and industry. This book will appeal to all those interested in imperial, economic and business history.
Problems Of Empire
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Author : P. J. Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-03-14
Problems Of Empire written by P. J. Marshall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-14 with History categories.
This book, first published in 1968, is a study of the impact made on Britain by the conquest of large parts of India in the second half of the eighteenth century. The sudden success of the East India Company in subjugating a vast population with a sophisticated civilization created problems of an unprecedented kind for Britain. It raised in an acute form questions about the scope and limits of state action, the rights of chartered bodies, the duties of conquerors to subject peoples, the appropriateness of exporting western ideals and concepts of law and government to Asia, and the manner in which the resources of the East could best contribute to Britain's power and wealth. These and similar topics were discussed at length in Parliament, the press, books and pamphlets, and in the correspondence of private individuals. A selection of this material, drawing on a wide and varied range of printed and manuscript sources, has been made to illustrate the arguments used in this debate and the manner in which solutions to some of the problems were gradually worked out over a period of more than fifty years. By 1813, after much trial and error, the outline of the political, administrative and economic links which were to bind India to Britain for much of the nineteenth century are already visible.
Considerations On Colonial Policy With Relation To The Renewal Of The East India Company S Charter
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Author : Impartial observer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1813
Considerations On Colonial Policy With Relation To The Renewal Of The East India Company S Charter written by Impartial observer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1813 with Great Britain categories.
Report From The Select Committee Of The House Of Lords Appointed To Inquire Into The Present State Of The Affairs Of The East India Company And Into The Trade Between Great Britain The East Indies And China With The Minutes Of Evidence Taken Before The Committee 1830
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee on the East India Company
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1830
Report From The Select Committee Of The House Of Lords Appointed To Inquire Into The Present State Of The Affairs Of The East India Company And Into The Trade Between Great Britain The East Indies And China With The Minutes Of Evidence Taken Before The Committee 1830 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee on the East India Company and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1830 with China categories.
East India Company V6
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Author : Patrick Truck
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-01-27
East India Company V6 written by Patrick Truck and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-27 with History categories.
First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence. Volume 6 includes C. H. Philips' The East India Company, 1784-1834, a classic study first published in 1940, examines the final struggle between the directors of the East India Company and home governments in Britain for ascendancy over management of the company as a state in India.
The East India Company In Eighteenth Century Politics
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Author : Dame Lucy Stuart Sutherland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
The East India Company In Eighteenth Century Politics written by Dame Lucy Stuart Sutherland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Great Britain categories.
India In Edinburgh
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Author : Roger Jeffery
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-06-28
India In Edinburgh written by Roger Jeffery and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-28 with History categories.
Roger Jeffery in this book has brought together 10 original, well-researched and well-written essays which bring to life the presence of India in the capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh. On the surface Edinburgh is a purely Scottish city: its ‘India’ past is not easily visible. Yet, from the late 17th century onwards, many of Edinburgh’s young men and women were drawn to India. The city received back money and knowledge, sculpture and paintings, botanical specimens and even skulls! Colonel James Skinner, well-known for establishing Skinner’s Horse, brought his sons to Edinburgh for their schooling. Though Sir Walter Scott visited India only in his imagination (and tried to stop his own sons going there) he crafted a dashing India tale involving Tipu Sultan. The money from India helped create Edinburgh’s New Town, Edinburgh’s internationally-renowned schools (whose former pupils careers ranged from tea-planters to Viceroys) and people who came to Edinburgh from India established Edinburgh’s second women’s medical college. There are many such hidden stories of Edinburgh’s India connections. In this path-breaking book they are brought to life, using novel approaches to look at Edinburgh’s past, to see it as an imperial city, a city for which India held a special place. Focusing on the interactions between individual lives, social networks and financial, material, cultural and social flows, leading experts from Edinburgh’s history provide fascinating detail on how Edinburgh’s links to India were formed and transformed. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka