Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India
Robert (Cornell University, New York) Travers
Cambridge University Press, 2007
149,95 €On orderDelivery: 2-3 weeks
A groundbreaking analysis of the construction of the British Empire in late eighteenth-century India. After the conquest of Bengal, Britons confronted the anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler, and tried to build their authority on the basis of an 'ancient constitution', from the Mughal Empire.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521861458
- ISBN-10
- 0521861454
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2007
- Publication date
- 2007-04-19
- Pages
- 294
- Dimensions
- 229x152x21
- Weight
- 617