Title The politics of empire at the accession of George III : the East India Company and the crisis and transformation of Britain's imperial state / James M. Vaughn

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) Series Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Introduction; Part One: THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE AND ITS CRISIS; 1 The First British Empire, the Whig Supremacy, and the East India Company; 2 Bourgeois Radicalism and the "Empire of Liberty" in the Age of Pitt; 3 The Plassey Revolution in Bengal and the Company's Civil War in Britain; Part Two: THE MAKING OF THE SECOND BRITISH EMPIRE; 4 Clive's Conquest of East India House and the Company's Conquest of Bengal; 5 The New Toryism and the Imperial Reaction at the Accession of George III 6 The Triumph of the New Toryism and the Spirit of the Second British EmpireEpilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z Summary An important revisionist history that casts eighteenth-century British politics and imperial expansion in a new light. In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were founded "in a fit of absence of mind." He instead argues that the origins of the Raj and the largest empire of the modern world were rooted in political conflicts and movements in Britain. It was British conservatives who shaped the Second Empire into one of conquest and dominion, emphasizing the extraction of resources and the subjugation of colonial populations. Drawing on a wide array of sources, Vaughn shows how the East India Company was transformed from a corporation into an imperial power in the service of British political forces opposed to the rising radicalism of the period. The Company's dominion in Bengal, where it raised territorial revenue and maintained a large army, was an autocratic bulwark of Britain's established order. A major work of political and imperial history, this volume offers an important new understanding of the era and its global ramifications Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 4, 2019) Subject George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820. SUBJECT George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 fast Subject East India Company -- History -- 18th century SUBJECT East India Company fast Subject HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia. HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. International relations Commerce Politics and government SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056808 Great Britain -- Relations -- India India -- Relations -- Great Britain East Indies -- Commerce -- Great Britain India -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064914 Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056900 Subject Asia -- East Indies Great Britain India Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300240542 0300240546

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