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American foreign missionaries
Atlantic Ocean trade
Atlantic slave trade
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British Empire
British India
calico
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chintz
Colonial America
cotton cloth
Early American Republic
East India Company
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fashion in the British Empire
global history of the American Revolution
global trade
imperial political economy
Indian Ocean missionaries
Indian Ocean trade
Industrial Revolution
Material culture of India
merchants
Mughal India
muslin
religion in the British empire
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- ISBN 9781469636177
- Weight: 670g
- Dimensions: 156 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2017
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India - both as an idea and a place - to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasingly made use of India's strengths to build their own empire in both America and Asia. Early English colonial promoters first envisioned America as a potential India, hoping that the nascent Atlantic colonies could produce Asian raw materials. When this vision failed to materialize, Britain's circulation of Indian manufactured goods - from umbrellas to cottons - to Africa, Europe, and America then established an empire of goods and the supposed good of empire.
Eacott recasts the British empire's chronology and geography by situating the development of consumer culture, the American Revolution, and British industrialization in the commercial intersections linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. From the seventeenth into the nineteenth century and beyond, the evolving networks, ideas, and fashions that bound India, Britain, and America shaped persisting global structures of economic and cultural interdependence.
Eacott recasts the British empire's chronology and geography by situating the development of consumer culture, the American Revolution, and British industrialization in the commercial intersections linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. From the seventeenth into the nineteenth century and beyond, the evolving networks, ideas, and fashions that bound India, Britain, and America shaped persisting global structures of economic and cultural interdependence.
Jonathan Eacott is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Riverside.
