Human capital and empire : Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British imperialism in Asia, c.1690-c.1820
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Bibliographic Information
Human capital and empire : Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British imperialism in Asia, c.1690-c.1820
(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)
Manchester University Press, 2021
- : hardback
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-311) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Human capital and empire compares the role of Scots, Irish and Welsh within the English East India Company between c. 1690 and c. 1820. It focuses on why the three groups developed such distinctive and different profiles within the corporation and its wider colonial activities in Asia. Besides contributing to the national histories of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, it uses these societies to ask how 'poorer' regions of Europe participated in global empire. The chapters cover involvement in the Company's administrative, military, medical, maritime and private trade activities. The analysis conceives of sojourning to Asia as a cycle of human capital, with human mobility used to access a key sector of world trade. As well as providing essential new statistical information on Irish, Scottish and Welsh participation, it makes a significant contribution to ongoing debates on the legacies of empire. -- .
Table of Contents
Founding editor's introduction
Introduction: Complicating the Coloniser: Scottish, Irish and Welsh perspectives on British imperialism in Asia
1 London and early links with the English East India companies
2 The brokers of human capital: shareholders and directors
3 Civil servants and mariners
4 The military: economies of high- and low-value human capital
5 Circuits of human and cultural capital: medicine and the knowledge economy in Asia
6 The free traders: connecting economies of human and monetary capital
7 Returns: realising the human capital economy
Conclusions: 'Poor' Europe's pathways to empire and globalisation
Appendices
Index -- .
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