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Article: Bowen, H. V.: The Business of Empire: The East India ...
History: Review of New Books;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Bowen, H. V. The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833 Cambridge: Cambridge ... nineteenth-century British Empire. He has written several volumes dealing with the empire and the East India Company and ...

Article: The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of ...
The Historian;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain. By Nicholas B ... argues, the British Empire in Asia, and therefore ... argument to all empires, most explicitly ... economy of the British Empire and of empires generally. He thereby ...

Article: The complexity of empire.(India before Europe; The ...
Canadian Journal of History;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833 ... establish an empire is an essay in ... the epigraph. Empires tend to develop ... practice that makes empires adaptive. The notion of empire, therefore ...

Article: The Business of Empire: The East India Company and ...
Contemporary Review;  September 22, 2006 ;     566 words ...The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833. H.V. Bowen. Cambridge University ... investigates the effect of the Company's expanding Indian empire on the Company. In addition he is concerned with the ...

Article: Books: Ace of diamonds Look into Churchill's multi-faceted ...
The Independent - London;  September 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... books on the British aristocracy and empire, that he is a master of the telling ... Bond that reflect the recessional of imperial Britain. That on Coward is particularly fine ... everything from Bolshevism to the Indian Empire brought diminishing returns when he thundered ...

Article: The great game: world powers are replaying the shadowy conflict ...
History Today;  February 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... engaged in carving out a vast empire on its southern flank, while ... that separated their Asian empires. Military explorers, diplomats ... lands of the declining Persian Empire in the Caucasus and Caspian ... successors to the Russian empire after the revolution of 1917 ...

Article: "We Ask For British Justice": Workers and Racial Difference in ...
Journal of Social History;  December 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... to a police rather than policy function might also be questioned. After all, that was a policy. A student of the British Empire could expect a fuller analysis of the continuities between the colonial labor system and black labor policy in Britain. But ...