This article examines a series of divisive debates over the political economy of colonial trade within the Compagnie des Indes, the privileged corporation that held a monopoly on commerce in India during the eighteenth century. It looks specifically at the fallout from the Second Carnatic War (1751-1754), a string of local succession conflicts to which Company administrators committed French troops in the hopes of gaining territorial concessions and tax revenues. As the military effort turned against the French, employees in Asia sought to justify their engagement in this conflict by criticizing the Company’s reliance on commercial monopoly. Opponents to the conflict, by contrast, developed a competing model of colonial political economy to...
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India Companies and Trading Posts in the 17th and 18th centuries Gérard Le Bouëdec, Marie Ménard, Ke...
This article examines the hostile relationship between Guadeloupe and Martinique at a time when the ...
International audienceThis article reconsiders the political economy of Empire cultivated by a seque...
Abstract : This paper deals with the strategies that the Gradis family - a prominent Jewish merchant...
This paper places the crown's administration of trade with its colonies within the larger context of...
This essay deals with the territorial expansion policy started during the second half of the 1740s b...
With the establishment of the French East India Company and its commerce in the region of Coromandel...
This article takes the Company of New France or CNF (1627-1663) as a case study to consider the lega...
Cet article explore les histoires interconnectées de Mahé en tant que ville semi-autonome du gouvern...
International audienceFrench policy in South Asia between the American Revolutionary War (1777-1783)...
This article examines two conceptions of Indian inter-state politics articulated by French officials...
This dissertation explores the history of the Compagnie des Indes (French East India Company), the p...
International audienceThis article explores Mahé’s interconnected experiences as both a semi-autonom...
International audienceThis article explores Mahé’s interconnected experiences as both a semi-autonom...
This article examines the hostile relationship between Guadeloupe and Martinique at a time when the ...
India Companies and Trading Posts in the 17th and 18th centuries Gérard Le Bouëdec, Marie Ménard, Ke...
This article examines the hostile relationship between Guadeloupe and Martinique at a time when the ...
International audienceThis article reconsiders the political economy of Empire cultivated by a seque...
Abstract : This paper deals with the strategies that the Gradis family - a prominent Jewish merchant...