Selling empire : India in the making of Britain and America, 1600-1830 /
In the 17th century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasingly made use of India's strengths to build their own empire in both America and Asia. Early English colonial promoters first envisioned America as a potential India, hoping that th...
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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- 1 "Those Curious Manufactures That Empire Affords": India Goods and Early English Expansion
- 2 An Imperial Compromise: The Calico Acts, the Company, and the Atlantic Colonies
- 3 Enforcement, Aesthetics, and Revenue
- 4 A Company to Fear: India and the American Revolution
- 5 Empires, Interlopers, Corruption, and America's Early India Trade
- 6 Remapping Production, Rethinking Monopolies
- 7 The French Wars and the Refashioning of Empire
- 8 Conversions.