The strategies and limits of gentlemanly capitalism: The London East India agency houses, provincial commercial interests, and the evolution of British economic policy in South and South East Asia 1800-50

Economic History Review

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 743-764

  Webster, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC HISTORY; ECONOMIC POLICY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY;

ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33749417550     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: 14680289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2006.00366.x     Document Type: Article

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