The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III : THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AND THE CRISIS AND TRANSFORMATION OF BRITAIN'S IMPERIAL STATE /
"In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were founded in "a fit of absence of mind." He instead argues that the origins of the Raj and the largest empire of the modern world were rooted in political...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2019
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| Series: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part One: the First British Empire and It's Crisis. The First British Empire, the Whig Supremacy, and the East India Company ; Bourgeois Radicalism and the "Empire of Liberty" in the Age of Pitt ; the Plassey Revolution in Bengal and the Company's Civil War in Britain
- Part Two: The Making of the Second British Empire. Clive's conquest of East India House and the Company's Conquest of Bengal ; The New Toryism and the Imperial Reaction at the Accession of George III ; the Triumph of the New Toryism and the Spirit of the Second British Empire
- Epilogue.