Название: The East India Company, 1600–1858: A Short History with Documents
Автор: Ian Barrow
Издательство: Hackett Publishing Company
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 189
Размер: 16,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China’s nineteenth-century addiction. In India it expanded from a few small coastal settlements to govern territories that far exceeded the British Isles in extent and population.