Selling Empire
India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830
By Jonathan Eacott
472 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 25 halftones, 7 figs, notes, index
Not for sale in South Asia
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Awards & distinctions
2017 Bentley Book Prize, World History Association
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.