Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Eacott, Jonathan
Title:
Selling empire : India in the making of Britain and America, 1600-1830 / Jonathan Eacott.
Published / Created:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

©2016
Physical Description:
vii, 455 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia." -- Title page.
Contents:
Introduction -- "Those Curious Manufactures That Empire Affords": India Goods and Early English Expansion -- An Imperial Compromise: The Calico Acts, the Company, and the Atlantic Colonies -- Enforcement, Aesthetics, and Revenue -- A Company to Fear: India and the American Revolution -- Empires, Interlopers, Corruption, and America's Early India Trade -- Remapping Production, Rethinking Monopolies -- The French Wars and the Refashioning of Empire -- Conversions -- Conclusion -- Index.
Subject Terms:
Imperialism -- Economic aspects. | Great Britain -- Colonies -- India. | Great Britain -- Colonies -- America. | Great Britain -- Colonies -- History. | British colonies. | Imperialism -- Economic aspects. | America. | India.
Form/Genre:
History.
Contributors:
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, sponsoring body.