History Today, July 1st, 2000
Huw V. Bowen asks whether the East India Company was one of the `most powerful engines' of state and empire in British history.
THE YEAR 2000 MARKS THE 400th anniversary of the founding of the English East India Company, the trading organisation that acted as the vehicle for British commercial and imperial expansion in Asia. For over two hundred years, the Company stood like a colossus over trade, commerce and empire, and contemporaries could only marvel at its influence, resources, strength and wealth. Writing at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the political economist David Macphe...
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