A New Oriental Register and East-India Directory, Corrected to the 4th of June, 1800, from the Accounts Transmitted to the Hon. the Court of Directors of the East-India Company, from Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Bencoolen, China, St. Helena, Containing Accurate Lists of the Company's Civil, Military, and Revenue Establishments, with a Correct List of British Europeans Resident in India, &c. &c. &c
Title | A New Oriental Register and East-India Directory, Corrected to the 4th of June, 1800, from the Accounts Transmitted to the Hon. the Court of Directors of the East-India Company, from Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Bencoolen, China, St. Helena, Containing Accurate Lists of the Company's Civil, Military, and Revenue Establishments, with a Correct List of British Europeans Resident in India, &c. &c. &c PDF eBook |
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Pages | 250 |
Release | 1800 |
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The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
Title | The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 PDF eBook |
Author | Margot Finn |
Publisher | UCL Press |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 2018-02-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1787350274 |
The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
Art and Identity in Scotland
Title | Art and Identity in Scotland PDF eBook |
Author | Viccy Coltman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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Release | 2019-10-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108284876 |
This lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways. Weaving together previously unpublished archival materials, visual and material culture, dress and textile history, Viccy Coltman re-evaluates the standard clichés and essentialist interpretations which still inhibit Scottish cultural history during this period of British and imperial expansion. The book incorporates familiar landmarks in Scottish history, such as the visit of George IV to Edinburgh in August 1822, with microhistories of individuals, including George Steuart, a London-based architect, and the East India Company servant, Claud Alexander. It thus highlights recurrent themes within a range of historical disciplines, and by confronting the broader questions of Scotland's relations with the rest of the British state it makes a necessary contribution to contemporary concerns.
Bengal, Past & Present
Title | Bengal, Past & Present PDF eBook |
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Pages | 300 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Bengal (India) |
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One Hundred Years of Singapore
Title | One Hundred Years of Singapore PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Makepeace |
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Pages | 842 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Singapore |
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East-India Register and Directory
Title | East-India Register and Directory PDF eBook |
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Pages | 596 |
Release | 1819 |
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The life of William Carey
Title | The life of William Carey PDF eBook |
Author | George Smith |
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Pages | 508 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | India |
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