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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Dalrymple, William (1965-....)
Titre(s) : The anarchy [Texte imprimé] : the relentless rise of the East India Company / William Dalrymple ; [maps and illustrations, Olivia Fraser]
Publication : London (GB) : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXXV-522 p. - [48] p. de pl. ) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p.407-496. Index
In August 1756 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced
him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants
who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army--what we would now call
an act of involuntary privatization. The East India Company's founding charter authorized
it to "wage war" and it had always used violence to gain its ends. But the creation
of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be
a conventional international trading corporation dealing in silks and spices and became
something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational
business. In less than four decades it had trained up a security force of around 200,000
men--twice the size of the British army--and had subdued an entire subcontinent, conquering
first Bengal and finally, in 1803, the Mughal capital of Delhi itself. The Company's
reach stretched until almost all of India south of the Himalayas was effectively ruled
from a boardroom in London. The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the
world's most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously
unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in on small office,
five windows wide, and answerable only to its distant shareholders. In his most ambitious
and riveting book to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company
as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first
global corporate power. -- Dust jacket flap
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Relentless rise of the East India Company
Sujet(s) : Impérialisme -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siècle
Compagnies de commerce et de navigation -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siècle
Inde -- 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
East India Company
Indice(s) Dewey :
941.073 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Îles britanniques - 1760-1820
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781635574333. - ISBN 1635574331. - ISBN 9781408864401. - ISBN 1408864401. -
ISBN 9781635573954 (erroné). - ISBN 1635573955 (erroné). - ISBN 9781408864388 (erroné).
- ISBN 140886438X (erroné). - ISBN 9781408864371 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46590476c
Notice n° :
FRBNF46590476
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 1599 ; An offer he could not refuse ; Sweeping with the broom of plunder ; A prince
of little capacity ; Bloodshed and confusion ; Racked by famine ; The desolation
of Delhi ; The impeachment of Warren Hastings ; The corpse of India.
