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A detailed analysis of how government in India was financed during the period of direct British rule. This book explores the financial relationship between the Indian government, …
Discusses the complexities of a trading network in this period, outling commodity chains, links between colonies and colonial centres, and tensions between local polities and …
Describes the voyages of East India Company's ships to India and China in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, discussing the nature of trade and the involvement of the …
The story of Allied victory in the Holy Land, far from the carnage of the Western Front but a crucial, morale-boosting success under the aggressive and forward-thinking General …
First modern critical edition of one of the most important and popular texts on the Crusades to survive. Robert the Monk's history of the First Crusade (1095-99), which was …
Examines how and why the East India Company was transformed from a commercial trading company to an institution of government, and then abolished. This book examines the …
Relates how the British, aided by Arab insurgents and the French, defeated the Turks, although not without difficulty, and captured northern Palestine and most of Syria. This book …
Biography and business history of wealthy British merchant in India reveals much about the nineteenth-century Empire. John Palmer was the most influential and wealthiest British …
A detailed assessment of how Western thinking about India developed in the nineteenth century, focusing on the exceptionally full lives of the scholar-administrator Muir brothers. …
First English translation of important text of the First Crusade. Guibert of Nogent's account of the First Crusade is an important but difficult chronicle which will be welcomed …