Entrepreneurship in the Age of Empire: Colonialism, Collaboration and Exploitation

by Sarah Dietz

Exploring the interplay of politics and commerce in one of the most dynamic periods of British history, this book traces the fortunes of the India and Eastern Trading Company Limited, established in 1906 to finance a jute plantation in Assam, north-east India. In a watershed period for commercial culture, as family capitalism and industrial economics gave way to a predominance of speculative investment and the marketing of ideas, analysis of this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367513579
• ISBN13: 9780367513573
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"