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Jute and empire

Author : Gordon T Stewart
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526121484
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Jute and empire written by Gordon T Stewart and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dundee had an interesting role to play in the jute trade, but the main player in the story of jute was Calcutta. This book follows the relationship of jute to empire, and discusses the rivalry between the Scottish and Indian cities from the 1840s to the 1950s and reveals the architecture of jute's place in the British Empire. The book adopts significant fresh approaches to imperial history, and explores the economic and cultural landscapes of the British Empire. Jute had been grown, spun and woven in Bengal for centuries before it made its appearance as a factory-manufactured product in world markets in the late 1830s. The book discusses the profits made in Calcutta during the rise of jute between the 1880s and 1920s; the profits reached extraordinary levels during and after World War I. The Calcutta jute industry entered a crisis period even before it was pummelled by the depression of the 1930s. The looming crisis stemmed from the potential of the Calcutta mills to outproduce world demand many times over. The St Andrew's Day rituals in Calcutta, begun three years before the founding of the Indian Jute Mills Association. The ceremonial occasion helps the reader to understand what the jute wallahs meant when they said they were in Calcutta for 'the greater glory of Scotland'. The book sheds some light on the contentious issues surrounding the problematic, if ever-intriguing, phenomenon of British Empire. The jute wallahs were inextricably bound up in the cultural self-images generated by British imperial ideology.

Jute and Empire

Author : Gordon Thomas Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526121493
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Jute and Empire written by Gordon Thomas Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent book combines cultural, social, economic and political history in a quite remarkable way. Based on fascinating primary research in India, England and Scotland, it represents a new departure in the writing of imperial history. 'Jute and Empire' follows the intriguing story of the rivalry between Calcutta and Dundee from the 1830s to the 1950s as these two cities competed in the world jute trade. It uses this dramatic narrative to explore fresh ways of understanding the multi-faceted nature of the British Empire. Recent scholarship on British imperialism has been divided between economic analysis and cultural readings. 'Jute and Empire' pursues both strategies by integrating economic, political, social and cultural history in an ambitious effort to understand, through the window provided by jute, the interaction of Bengal and Scotland within the broader context of the British raj.

Empire, Industry and Class

Author : Anthony Cox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415506166
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Empire, Industry and Class written by Anthony Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour market formation, labour supervision, cultures of labour and class formation between two regional economies - one in an imperial country and the other in a colonial one. The book examines the everyday lives of the jute workers of the imperial nexus, and the impact of the 'Dundee School' of Scottish mechanics, engineers and managers who ran the Calcutta jute industry. It goes on to challenge existing theories of imperialism, class formation and class struggle - particularly those that underline the exceptional nature of the Indian experience of industrialization - and demonstrates how and why Empire was able to provide an opportunity to test and perfect ways of controlling the lower classes of Dundee. These historical debates have a continued relevance as we observe the impact of globalization and rapid industrialization in the so-called developing world and the accompanying changes in many areas of the developed world marked by de-industrialization. The book is of use to scholars of imperial history, labour history, British history and South Asian history.

Dundee and the Empire

Author : Jim Tomlinson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748686150
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Dundee and the Empire written by Jim Tomlinson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new OCyglobalOCO history of the Scottish city of DundeeOCOs industrial era which combines economic, political and social history and explores the significance of empire for British policy."e;

Dundee, jute and empire

Author : The Open University
Publisher : The Open University
ISBN 13 : 147300926X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Dundee, jute and empire written by The Open University and published by The Open University. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Dundee in Scotland as a case study, this 12-hour free course explored some of the debates surrounding the economics of British imperialism.

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

Author : Debjani Bhattacharyya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108681727
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta written by Debjani Bhattacharyya and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together. Pushing beyond narratives of environmental decline, Bhattacharyya argues that 'property-thinking', a governing tool critical in making land and water discrete categories of bureaucratic and legal management, was at the heart of colonial urbanization and the technologies behind the draining of Calcutta. The story of ecological change is narrated alongside emergent practices of land speculation and transformation in colonial law. Bhattacharyya demonstrates how this history continues to shape our built environments with devastating consequences, as shown in the Bay of Bengal's receding coastline.

A Local History of Global Capital

Author : Tariq Omar Ali
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202575
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book A Local History of Global Capital written by Tariq Omar Ali and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the sack circulated globally, the plant was cultivated almost exclusively by peasant smallholders in a small corner of the world: the Bengal delta. This book examines how jute fibers entangled the delta's peasantry in the rhythms and vicissitudes of global capital. Taking readers from the nineteenth-century high noon of the British Raj to the early years of post-partition Pakistan in the mid-twentieth century, Tariq Omar Ali traces how the global connections wrought by jute transformed every facet of peasant life: practices of work, leisure, domesticity, and sociality; ideas and discourses of justice, ethics, piety, and religiosity; and political commitments and actions. Ali examines how peasant life was structured and restructured with oscillations in global commodity markets, as the nineteenth-century period of peasant consumerism and prosperity gave way to debt and poverty in the twentieth century. A Local History of Global Capital traces how jute bound the Bengal delta's peasantry to turbulent global capital, and how global commodity markets shaped everyday peasant life and determined the difference between prosperity and poverty, survival and starvation.

Imperialism

Author : John Atkinson Hobson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperialism written by John Atkinson Hobson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Empire Strikes Back?

Author : Andrew S. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317873882
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Empire Strikes Back? written by Andrew S. Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `The Empire Strikes Back' will inject the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. In the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century, Britain's empire was so large that it was truly the global superpower. Much of Africa, Asia and America had been subsumed. Britannia's tentacles had stretched both wide and deep. Culture, Religion, Health, Sexuality, Law and Order were all impacted in the dominated countries. `The Empire Strikes Back' shows how the dependent states were subsumed and then hit back, affecting in turn England itself.

Entrepreneurship in the Age of Empire

Author : Sarah Dietz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000299619
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Entrepreneurship in the Age of Empire written by Sarah Dietz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 London-registered company and its international management forms a lens through which to view the broader socio-political and economic environment of the late-Victorian period to the interwar. Mapping the eclectic bonds that created a network of association between a multinational cast of merchants, company promoters, mining engineers, politicians and industrialists, reveals the multiplicity of strands which coalesced to create one share company. By examining their responses to the opportunities created by colonialism: to enabling legislations and set-backs, to competition and collaboration, internationalism versus rising nationalism, an important era in British history is examined from an entirely fresh perspective. The history of the India and Eastern Trading Company Limited is a tale of cloaked agendas, of land speculation under the guise of colonial agriculture, of German and Russian interests embedded in British-empire prospects, which exposes the intrigues of some of the most infamous imperialists of the era; figures who were the subject of intense academic scrutiny throughout the twentieth century and remain at the forefront of impassioned debate in the twenty first.

The Romance of Jute

Author : D. R. Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Jute written by D. R. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Empire Families

Author : Elizabeth Buettner
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199249075
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Empire Families written by Elizabeth Buettner and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Empire Families' focuses on childhood among middle-class Britons in India between the late 19th century and decolonization and the impact this had on the raj. In this study of family life in colonial India, Buettner highlights the social significance of both growing up in the raj and the itinerant colonial lifestyle.

The Decline of Jute

Author : Carlo Morelli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317322991
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Decline of Jute written by Carlo Morelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By looking at the decline of the jute industry, this study assesses the successes and failures of Britain’s managed economy. It also addresses broader arguments about the political economy of twentieth-century Britain.

Journeys to Empire

Author : Gordon T. Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521515025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Journeys to Empire written by Gordon T. Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparing two British missions to Tibet in 1774 and 1904, Stewart sheds light on the changing nature of British imperialism.

American Commodities in an Age of Empire

Author : Mona Domosh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415945720
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book American Commodities in an Age of Empire written by Mona Domosh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selling Civilization is a novel interpretation of the relationship between consumerism, commercialism, and imperialism during the first empire building ear of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Unlike other empires in history, which were typically built on military power, the first American empire was primarily a commercial one, dedicated to pushing products overseas and dominating foreign markets. While the American government was important, it was the great capitalist firms of America--Heinz, Singer, McCormick, Kodak, Standard Oil--that drove the imperial process, explicitly linking the purchase of consumer goods overseas with "civilization" Their persistent message to America's prospective customers was, "buy American products and join the march of progress."Selling Civilization also explores how the images of peoples overseas conveyed through goods elevated America's sense of itself in the world.

Scotland and the British Empire

Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192513532
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Scotland and the British Empire written by John M. MacKenzie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary influence of Scots in the British Empire has long been recognized. As administrators, settlers, temporary residents, professionals, plantation owners, and as military personnel, they were strikingly prominent in North America, the Caribbean, Australasia, South Africa, India, and colonies in South-East Asia and Africa. Throughout these regions they brought to bear distinctive Scottish experience as well as particular educational, economic, cultural, and religious influences. Moreover, the relationship between Scots and the British Empire had a profound effect upon many aspects of Scottish society. This volume of essays, written by notable scholars in the field, examines the key roles of Scots in central aspects of the Atlantic and imperial economies from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, in East India Company rule in India, migration and the preservation of ethnic identities, the environment, the army, missionary and other religious activities, the dispersal of intellectual endeavours, and in the production of a distinctive literature rooted in colonial experience. Making use of recent, innovative research, the chapters demonstrate that an understanding of the profoundly interactive relationship between Scotland and the British Empire is vital both for the understanding of the histories of that country and of many territories of the British Empire. All scholars and general readers interested in the dispersal of intellectual ideas, key professions, Protestantism, environmental practices, and colonial literature, as well as more traditional approaches to politics, economics, and military recruitment, will find it an essential addition to the historical literature.

Entrepreneurship in the Age of Empire

Author : Sarah Dietz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367513573
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Entrepreneurship in the Age of Empire written by Sarah Dietz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates how entrepreneurial styles formed and evolved in the post-family capitalist era, how ambitious businessmen navigated socio-commercial networks, or the group system, to gain access to a highly-integrated system of capital cooperation, to disguised monopolies and interests interlinked.