01.20 - The East India Company

In this episode, we catch up with events across the Atlantic; the colonies of Virginia, Bermuda, and Newfoundland, and how they are faring. We also look at the ridiculously successful first decades of the East India Company, and get a glimpse of the fantastical levels of wealth that were on offer for investors in its voyages. Check out the podcast website: https://www.paxbritannica.info Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritannicaPax In this episode I made particular use of the following publications: - Philip Lawson, The East India Company : A History, 1993 - Munis Faruqui,The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719, 2012 - K. N. Chaudhuri, English East India Company: The Study of an Early Joint-stock Company 1600-1640, 1865 - Zahedeh, N. (2001). ‘Overseas Expansion and Trade in the Seventeenth Century’. Canny N. & Louis R. (eds) Origins of Empire : British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. -Stern, P. J. (2011). The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India. - Reid, J. G., & Mancke, E. (2010). ‘From Global Processes to Continental Strategies: The Emergence of British North America to 1783’. Canada and the British Empire. A full bibliography can be found on the website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices