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*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the companies *Includes a bibliography for further reading From c
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*Includes pictures *Profiles the East India Company's leaders and its actions across Asia *Includes online resource
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Around 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world’s trade and deployed a vast network of politica
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In 1747, the city of Kerman in Persia burned amidst chaos, destruction and death perpetrated by the city’s own overlord,
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The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and
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Indirect rule is widely considered as a defining feature of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Empire but its
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