Selling Empire: India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

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Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India–both as an idea and a spot–to the making of a global British imperial system. Within the seventeenth century, Britain was once economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons an increasing number of made use of India’s strengths to build their very own empire in both The usa and Asia. Early English colonial promoters first envisioned The usa as a potential India, hoping that the nascent Atlantic colonies may produce Asian raw materials. When this vision failed to materialize, Britain’s circulation of Indian manufactured goods–from umbrellas to cottons–to Africa, Europe, and The usa then established an empire of products and the supposed good of empire.

Eacott recasts the British empire’s chronology and geography by situating the advance of consumer culture, the American Revolution, and British industrialization Within the commercial intersections linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. From the seventeenth into the nineteenth century and beyond, the evolving networks, ideas, and fashions that bound India, Britain, and The usa shaped persisting global structures of financial and cultural interdependence.

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