This 1937 work is framed as a maritime history as distinct from an economic history, and was highly acclaimed on first publication. Parkinson's focus is the activities of the East India Company in India and the East Indies between 1793 and 1815. Although a scholarly work, firmly founded on primary sources, it presents a potentially dry subject in a vivid and lively way which is extremely readable. Rather than narrating the history of the East India Company, Parkinson provides a series of descriptions of how it operated, the ...
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This 1937 work is framed as a maritime history as distinct from an economic history, and was highly acclaimed on first publication. Parkinson's focus is the activities of the East India Company in India and the East Indies between 1793 and 1815. Although a scholarly work, firmly founded on primary sources, it presents a potentially dry subject in a vivid and lively way which is extremely readable. Rather than narrating the history of the East India Company, Parkinson provides a series of descriptions of how it operated, the goods it traded, and the experiences of employees or passengers who sailed east. He reminds the modern reader of how fundamental the prevailing winds were to the trade routes, and the great discomforts of long sea voyages. This is a fascinating story of the realities of British economic involvement in India and the Far East during a key period of consolidation.
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Reader copy. Ex-library hardback without dust jacket, spine cover loose, edges of green cloth boards worn with some corner bumping, usual library stamps & markings, good clear text, binding intact, published 1937 by Cambridge, 435pp, ready for immediate despatch from UK. 33C*
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New. Trade paperback (US). Contains: Maps. Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History . 8 b/w illus. 2 maps. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Boards discolored, library stamps on edges, no internal library marks; jacket has some soil and a chip on the jacket spine foot; Ex-Library; Map in rear; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 435 pages.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Contains: Maps. Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History . 8 b/w illus. 2 maps. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First Printing. Prior owner bookplate on inside front cover. Auction listing tipped in on inside front cover. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, chips.
