The East India Company in eighteenth-century politics
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1952. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii,430, [2]; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. "Though much has been written on the rise of British power in India in the eighteenth century and though interest has always been excited by the Parliamentary crises which punctuated its course and by the men most concerned in it, the study of the relations of the State and the East India Company during this period has been neglected. The subject is complex, involving as it does the internal politics of the Company as well as the workings of the eighteenth-century political machine, but its study serves not only as a background to events in India but as an approach to some of the major problems of contemporary English politics. This book is an attempt to make such a study for the years leading up to Pitt's East India Act of 1784" (publisher's blurb). Item #72861
Price: $100.00
