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The Company´s Island: St Helena, Company Colonies and the Colonial Endeavour
Stephen Royle
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Description for The Company´s Island: St Helena, Company Colonies and the Colonial Endeavour
Hardback. In St Helena, when the East India Company had to establish a society the civilian population rebelled, the garrison mutinied, assassinating the governor, and a rebellion by black slaves was savagely punished. This book presents this tale involving issues of race, morality, gender, trade and defence within the context of Empire. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 b/w. BIC Classification: 1MTASH; HBJQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 240 x 26. Weight in Grams: 514.
As English adventurer Francis Drake and his contemporaries opened up seaborne trade with Asia and the East, so dreams of untold wealth fuelled the appetites of European nations. A new form of co-operation arose between governments and entrepreneurs - the merchant company. Vital to the entire commercial and colonial endeavour, part of the story of Empire lies in the outposts they established."The Company's Island" focuses upon one such company colony - St Helena. With no indigenous population on the island, the East India Company had to establish a society from scratch but far from settling 'in love and amity' a ... Read more
As English adventurer Francis Drake and his contemporaries opened up seaborne trade with Asia and the East, so dreams of untold wealth fuelled the appetites of European nations. A new form of co-operation arose between governments and entrepreneurs - the merchant company. Vital to the entire commercial and colonial endeavour, part of the story of Empire lies in the outposts they established."The Company's Island" focuses upon one such company colony - St Helena. With no indigenous population on the island, the East India Company had to establish a society from scratch but far from settling 'in love and amity' a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845116125
SKU
V9781845116125
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Ref
99-5
About Stephen Royle
Stephen A. Royle is Reader in Geography at Queen's University Belfast. He is Director of Queen's University Centre of Canadian Studies and a past President of the Geographical Society of Ireland.
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