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Botany and Gardens in Early Modern Ireland (Nelson Charles)This beautifully illustrated book explores sources for botany and gardening in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland. It investigates the contributions of individuals such as Philip OSullivan Beare and Thomas Molyneux in the seventeenth century, and, for the eighteenth century, focuses on the ... |
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Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 (Howarth David)The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company--from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch--to laying the groundwork for future British expansion The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked. The... |
18,68 € |
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The First Anglo-Sikh War 1845-46: The Betrayal of the Khalsa (Smith David)A highly illustrated account of the First Anglo-Sikh War of 1845-56, a dramatic, hard-fought, and colorful conflict during Britains rule of India. This fully illustrated study of the First Anglo-Sikh War tells the story of one of the major colonial wars of the nineteenth century, as the British Eas... |
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East India Company and Religion 1698-1858 (Carson Penelope) |
76,76 € |
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Inglorious Empire (Tharoor Shashi)Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India - from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj - revealing how Britains rise was built upon its plunder of |
29,76 € |
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Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World (Ellis Markman)Although tea had been known and consumed in China and Japan for centuries, it was only in the seventeenth century that Londoners first began drinking it. Over the next two hundred years, its stimulating properties seduced all of British society, as tea found its way into cottages and castles alike. ... |
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H. M. S. Surprise (OBrian Patrick)In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death and tumultuous romance in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Tasked with ferrying a British ambassador to the Sultan of Kampong, they find themselves on a prolonged voya... |
13,12 € |
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Hul! Hul!: The Suppression of the Santal Rebellion in Bengal, 1855 (Stanley Peter)If not for the famous Indian mutiny-rebellion of 1857, the Santal Hul (rebellion) of 1855 would today be remembered as the most serious uprising that the East India Company ever faced. Instead, this rebellion-to which 10 per cent of the Bengal Armys infantry was committed and in which at least 10,00... |
47,76 € |
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Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765-1793 (Travers Robert)In this deeply researched and revealing account, Robert Travers offers a new view of the transition from Mughal to British rule in India. By focusing on processes of petitioning and judicial inquiry, Travers argues that the East India Company consolidated its territorial power in the conquered provi... |
115,12 € |
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Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan (Clulow Adam)The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process. This study focuses on the companys... |
33,16 € |
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Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule (Wilkinson Callie)Indirect rule is widely considered as a defining feature of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Empire but its divisive earlier history remains largely unexplored. Empire of Influence traces the contentious process whereby the East India Company established a system of indirect rule in Indi... |
116,28 € |
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Raj Vol. 2: An Oriental Gentleman (Wilbur)Bombay, 1831. Freshly arrived from London, Alexander Martin reports to his new boss at the Indian Political Service - a government agency whose function is little more than helping the East India Company expand its grasp upon the Indian subcontinent. The enthusiastic, somewhat idealistic young man s... |
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Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism (Crouzet Guillemette)The Middle East has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. Few question the origin of the term or the boundaries of the region, commonly understood to have emerged in the twentieth century after World War I.Guillem... |
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Travels into Bokhara (Burnes Alexander)Sir Alexander Burnes(1805 - 1841) was a British adventurer, spy and employee of the East India Company. Burnes kept a lively, detailed record of his trail-blazing journey across Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, the Indian sub-continent and beyond which he later published in three volumes to great acclaim, e... |
31,80 € |
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Egypt 1801: The End of Napoleons Eastern Empire (Reid Stuart)The first campaign medal awarded to British soldiers is reckoned to be that given to those men who fought at Waterloo in 1815, but a decade and a half earlier a group of regiments were awarded a unique badge - a figure of a Sphinx - to mark their service in Egypt in 1801. It was a fitting distincti... |
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"Stranglers of Bombay" ("Terence Fisher") (Blu-ray)Terence Fisher directs this 1950s adventure horror from Hammer Films which recreates the British defeat of the murderous Kali devil cult in India in the 1830s. The cult specialises in strangulation as a means of driving the British from their trading station, and when their methods significantly dis... |
14,76 € |
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Retribution Road (Varenne Antonin)We owe you our lives, Sergeant, but you are our worst nightmare . . . Burma, 1852. Sergeant Arthur Bowman, a sergeant in the East India Company, is sent on a secret mission during the Second Anglo-Burmese War. But the expedition is foiled - his men are captured and tortured. Throughout their ordeal... |
13,40 € |
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The Honourable Company (Keay John)During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into the grandest society of merchants in the universe. As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the worlds trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there w... |
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Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World (Sharman J. C.)How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the worlds first genuinely global order From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire... |
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Womens Travel Writings in India 1777-1854: Volume III: Mrs A. Deane, a Tour Through the Upper Provinces of Hindustan (1823); And Julia Charlotte Mait (Agnew adaoin)The memsahibs of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public, however, are the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-ce... |
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