Company Politics: Commerce, Scandal, and French Visions of Indian Empire in the Revolutionary Era

by Elizabeth Cross

In the wake of the Seven Years' War and the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent, the French monarchy chartered a new East India Company. The Nouvelle Compagnie des Indes was an attempt to maintain French diplomatic and financial credit among European rivals and trading partners within a region integral to the broader imperial economy. Reimagining French power as subsisting through an informal empire of trade, instead of a territorial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197653758
• ISBN13: 9780197653753
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"