Scandal of Empire - India and the Creation of Imperial Britain

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas B. Dirks is the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and History! and Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty! at Columbia University. Klappentext When Warren Hastings was put on trial by Edmund Burke! it brought the East India Company's exploits to public attention. Presenting the scandal that laid the foundation of the British Empire! this work explains how the substitution of imperial authority for Company rule helped erase the origins of empire and justify the British presence in India. Zusammenfassung The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England's development in the eighteenth century and beyond. In this powerfully written critique! Nicholas Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Map of India! 1792 Prologue 1. Scandal 2. Corruption 3. Spectacle 4. Economy 5. Sovereignty 6. State 7. History 8. Tradition 9. Empire Notes Illustration Credits Index

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas B. Dirks
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2008
• EAN: 9780674027244
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02724-4
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 210 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; History, India, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / General