Breaking Into the Monopoly - Provincial Merchants and Manufacturers' Campaigns for Access to the Asian Market, 1790-1833

In Breaking into the Monopoly, Yukihisa Kumagai examines how the commercial pressure groups of Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester organised campaigns to end the British East India Company's monopoly from 1812-1813 and 1829-1833.

About the author

Yukihisa Kumagai, Ph.D. (2008), University of Glasgow, is Assistant Professor of Economics Course at University of the Ryukyus, Japan. He has published academic journal articles on British economic history in the UK and Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Yukihisa Kumagai
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2012
• EAN: 9789004241725
• ISBN: 978-90-04-24172-5
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Library of Economic History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries