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The eighteenth century—the era of the fall of the Mughals, of the rise of regional successor states, and of the beginnings of British domination—has attracted some of the most lively and innovative writing about Indian history in recent years. This book presents within a single volume a selection of the most important work on this period that has appeared in specialist journals or as chapters in monographs. Reassessment of the eighteenth century has provoked ...
The losses of the British Empire in North America and the creation of a new territorial empire in eastern India are conventionally seen as unconnected seen as unconnected events in world history. Marshall argues that these developments were part of a single phase of Brittain’s imperial history, rather than marking the closing of a ‘first’ Atlantic empire and the rise of a ‘second’ eastern one. This book brings together findings of the rich historical ...