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Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and a

A dramatic history of the British public's confrontation with the iniquities of nineteenth-century colonial rule. James Epstein uses the trial of the first gove

Husband-and-wife British spies investigate a murder in Brussels amid a whirlwind of war and revelry in this “superb” Regency-era mystery (Historical Novel S

Answering the calls made to overcome methodological nationalism, this volume is the first examination of the links between corruption and imperial rule in the m

The Business of Empire assesses the domestic impact of British imperial expansion by analysing what happened in Britain following the East India Company's acqui