Description: Selling Empire : India in the Making of Britain and America 1, Paperback by Eacott, Jonathan, ISBN 1469636174, ISBN-13 9781469636177, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 2017 Bentley Book Prize, World History Association
Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India--both as an idea and a place--to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasingly made use of Indias strengths to build their own empire in both America and Asia. Early English colonial promoters first envisioned America as a potential India, hoping that the nascent Atlantic colonies could produce Asian raw materials. When this vision failed to materialize, Britains circulation of Indian manufactured goods--from umbrellas to cottons--to Africa, Europe, and America then established an empire of goods and the supposed good of empire.
Eacott recasts the British empires chronology and geography by situating the development of consumer culture, the American Revolution, and British industrialization in the commercial intersections linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. From the seventeenth into the nineteenth century and beyond, the evolving networks, ideas, and fashions that bound India, Britain, and America shaped persisting global structures of economic and cultural interdependence.
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Book Title: Selling Empire : India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830
Number of Pages: 472 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Imperialism, Asia / India & South Asia, Europe / Great Britain / General, North America
Publication Year: 2017
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 9 Oz
Author: Jonathan Eacott
Item Length: 9.2 in
Book Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
