An important revisionist history that casts eighteenth-century British politics and imperial expansion in a new light In this bold debut work, historian James M
The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It incl
Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the B
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