| Selling Empire: India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830 Contributor(s): Eacott, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1469636174 ISBN-13: 9781469636177 Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - History | Asia - India & South Asia |
| Dewey: 382.609 |
| LCCN: 2015035748 |
| Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 6.17" W x 8.96" (1.48 lbs) 472 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 2017 Bentley Book Prize, World History Association Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India--both as an idea and a place--to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasingly made use of India's strengths to build their own empire in both America and Asia. Early English colonial promoters first envisioned America as a potential India, hoping that the nascent Atlantic colonies could produce Asian raw materials. When this vision failed to materialize, Britain's circulation of Indian manufactured goods--from umbrellas to cottons--to Africa, Europe, and America then established an empire of goods and the supposed good of empire. Eacott recasts the British empire's chronology and geography by situating the development of consumer culture, the American Revolution, and British industrialization in the commercial intersections linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. From the seventeenth into the nineteenth century and beyond, the evolving networks, ideas, and fashions that bound India, Britain, and America shaped persisting global structures of economic and cultural interdependence. |
Contributor Bio(s): Eacott, Jonathan: - Jonathan Eacott is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. |