The Anarchy
The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
In his most ambitious book to date, bestselling historian William Dalrymple tells the untold story of the East India Company and one of the most supreme acts of corporate violence in world history In 1765 the East India Company ceased to be a conventional trading corporation, dealing in silks and spices, and transformed itself into an aggressive colonial power. By 1803 it had trained up a private security force of around 260,000 - twice the size of the British army - and had subdued an entire subcontinent, conquering Bengal and later the Mughal capital of Delhi. In less than half a century, one company had executed a coup unparalleled in hist…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4088-6438-8
- EAN: 9781408864388
- Produktnummer: 29782754
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 576 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H23.3 cm x B14.9 cm x D4.6 cm 965 g
- Gewicht: 965
Über den Autor
William Dalrymple is one of Britain's great historians and the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. A frequent broadcaster, he has written and presented three television series, one of which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA. He has also won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the FPA Media Awards, and been awarded five honorary doctorates. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting fellowships at Princeton and Brown. He writes regularly for the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker and the Guardian. In 2018 he was presented with the prestigious President's Medal by the British Academy for his outstanding literary achievement and for co-founding the Jaipur Literature Festival. William lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.
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