"Over the long eighteenth century, thousands of men and women from the English provinces lived and worked in the East Indies. Yet the provincial commitment of human, financial and social capital to ventures in the East Indies has largely been disregarded. This book challenges the widely held vi...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Bibliographische Detailangaben

1. Verfasser:	Saville-Smith, K. J. ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Suffolk, UK The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd 2018
Schriftenreihe:	Worlds of the East India Company 14
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1680-1830 Auswanderung Rückwanderung Indien Südostasien County Cumbria Cumbria (England) / Emigration and immigration / History British / East Indies / Social conditions East Indies / Colonization Great Britain / Colonies / East Indies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia Electronic books Hochschulschrift
Zusammenfassung:	"Over the long eighteenth century, thousands of men and women from the English provinces lived and worked in the East Indies. Yet the provincial commitment of human, financial and social capital to ventures in the East Indies has largely been disregarded. This book challenges the widely held view that British rule in India was driven primarily by the interests of London merchants and national political elites. Based on extensive original research, including the piecing together of biographical fragments of over 400 men and women from the Cumbrian counties, setting them in their family, social, financial and cultural networks, and outlining the details of their sojourns in the East, the book portrays a provincial world heavily implicated in the East Indies. It discusses how provincial people's encounter with the East Indies was driven by the desire of middling folk and gentry to promote, sustain, and, in some cases, revive fortunes, position and influence in their own provincial milieu, and thereby demonstrates how provincial preoccupations shaped the East Indies, and how East Indies experiences shaped provincial life. Kay Saville-Smith is Director of the Centre for Research, Evaluation and Social Assessment in Wellington, New Zealand. She completed her doctorate at the University of Lancaster."-- Shows how it was not just the London elite and City merchants who had connections to British India
Beschreibung:	xv, 296 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten, genealogische Tafeln
ISBN:	9781783272815