Bücher von H. V. (University of Leicester) Bowen

The first detailed study of what happened in Britain when the East India Company acquired a vast territorial empire in South Asia. It offers a reconstruction of the inner workings of the company as it made the remarkable transition from business to empire during the late-eighteenth century.

War exerted a considerable influence on the development of Britain's society and economy between 1688 and 1815. This 1998 book presents a balanced overview of Britain as a nation at war and discusses the financial and logistical effects of war on an industrialising economy as well as the social and economic strains imposed on the population at large during the 'age of war'.