The East India Company; Trade and Conquest from 1600

by Antony Wild

• ISBN13: 9781585740598
• ISBN10: 1585740594
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: The Lyons Press
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Summary

The East India Company haunts the collective psyche of the modern world. Heady images of sailing ships laden with spices, tea, and porcelain on the high seas jostle with darker images of opium, oppression, and greed. In form, like a modern multinational; in action, like an expansionist nation state -- the East India Company was a uniquely British creation which took on the world.

Table of Contents

Chronology	6	(1)
Introduction & Acknowledgements	7	(1)
Origins	8	(10)
First Steps in India	18	(8)
The Spice Islands and Japan	26	(8)
The Company in China	34	(16)
The Indian Presidencies	50	(10)
Company at Home	60	(14)
Company Overland and Sea	74	(10)
The Company in the East	84	(8)
Fortunes	92	(10)
East Meets West	102	(20)
Life under the Company Raj	122	(8)
Company at War	130	(12)
Company goes West	142	(8)
Company at Work, Rest and Play	150	(12)
Consolidation	162	(8)
Company in Trouble	170	(10)
Company Out	180	(6)
Appendices	186	(2)
Picture Credits	188	(1)
Index	189