East India Patronage and the British State
The Scottish Elite and Politics in the Eighteenth Century
The Act of Union in 1707 brought with it a new 'Great Britain'. How did the English bind the Scottish elites to the new British State, ensuring the stability of this new power in the face of possible Jacobite and international threat? From 1725 a patronage system existed in Britain enabling government ministries to use posts in the East India Company and its shipping to secure political majorities in Scotland and Westminster. Scots went to India as Company servants, ships' crews, soldiers and free-merchants, bringing back exceptional wealth to a land starved of money and providing for commercial and industrial advances throughout Great Britai…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-85771-228-8
- EAN: 9780857712288
- Produktnummer: 22567990
- Verlag: I.B.Tauris
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 5'038 KB
Über den Autor
George McGilvary was previously Honorary Post-Doctoral Fellow at Edinburgh University, UK. He specialises in the E. I. Company and the political and commercial activities of the Scottish elite at home, within the India House and abroad. Publications include three academic monographs and numerous published articles and chapters.
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