Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction. 1. Those Curious Manufactures That Empire Affords : India Goods and Early English Expansion. 2. An Imperial Compromise: The Calico Acts, the Company, and the Atlantic Colonies. 3. Enforcement, Aesthetics, and Revenue. 4. A Company to Fear: India and the American Revolution. 5. Empires, Interlopers, Corruption, and America s Early India Trade. 6. Remapping Production, Rethinking onopolies. 7. The French Wars and the Refashioning of Empire. 8. Conversions. Conclusion. Index. 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 thought of America as a potential India, hoping that the emerging 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 encouraged many British people to debate whether or not their empire itself was good for Britain or India. Eacott takes a new look at the British empire's history and geography by tracing the development of consumer culture, the American Revolution, and British industrialization through the commercial intersections linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century and beyond, the evolving networks, ideas, and fashions that bound India, Britain, and America shaped the persisting global structures of economic and cultural power and interdependence. (jacket). Seller Inventory # 118074

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