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The Story of Indian Manufacturing : Encounters with the Mughal and British Empires (1498 -1947)

Seth, Vijay K. - 2018

This book discusses the role historical events played in determining the pattern of growth of Indian manufacturing. Two important historical events significantly influenced the course of Indian manufacturing from the 15th century AD. The first was the arrival of European merchants via sea route...

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Capital and Colonialism : The Return on British Investments in Africa 1869–1969

Rönnbäck, Klas; Broberg, Oskar - 2019 - 1st ed. 2019

colonialism in theory -- Chapter 4: Previous research -- Chapter 5: Method and data -- Part II: Aggregate results -- Chapter 6 …This book engages in the long-standing debate on the relationship between capitalism and colonialism. Specifically … colonialism was highly complex. While return from investing in African colonies on average was not extraordinary, there were …

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The origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600-1750

Veevers, David - 2020

"This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural interactions between servants of the English East India Company and the Asian communities and states they came into contact...

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Entrepreneurship in the age of empire : colonialism, collaboration and exploitation

Dietz, Sarah - 2021

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The currency of empire : money and power in seventeenth-century English America

Barth, Jonathan - 2021

Silver, mercantilism, and the impulse for colonization -- The first decades of English American settlement, 1607- -- Monetary upheaval, recovery and the Dutch infiltration, 1640- -- Mercantilism, mints, clipping, smuggling, and piracy, 1660- -- Empire in crisis and flux, 1670- -- Showdown in...

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Imagining Britain's economic future, c.1800-1975 : trade, consumerism, and global markets

Thackeray, David (ed.); Thompson, Andrew S. (ed.); … - 2018

Following the Brexit vote, this book offers a timely historical assessment of the different ways that Britain's economic future has been imagined and how British ideas have influenced global debates about market relationships over the past two centuries. The 2016 EU referendum hinged to a...