The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III: The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain’s Imperial State PDF
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(cid:2) he Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III (cid:2)HE LEWIS WALPOLE SERIES IN EIGHTEENTH- CENTURY CULTURE AND HISTORY The Lewis Walpole Series, published by Yale University Press with the aid of the Annie Burr Lewis Fund, is dedicated to the culture and history of the long eighteenth century (from the Glorious Revolution to the accession of Queen Victoria). It welcomes work in a variety of fields, including literature and history, the visual arts, political philosophy, music, legal history, and the history of science. In addition to original scholarly work, the series publishes new editions and translations of writing from the period, as well as reprints of major books that are currently unavailable. Though the majority of books in the series will probably concentrate on Great Britain and the Continent, the range of our geographical interests is as wide as Horace Walpole’s. The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III the east india company and the crisis and transformation of britain s imperial state ’ James M. Vaughn New Haven & London Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund. Copyright © 2019 by Yale University. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Yale University Press books may be purchased in quantity for educational, business, or promotional use. For information, please e- mail [email protected] (U.S. office) or [email protected] (U.K. office). Set in Adobe Garramond type by IDS Infotech Limited, Chandigarh, India. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Control Number: 2018948868 ISBN 978- 0- 300- 20826-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ansi/niso Z39.48-1 992 (Permanence of Paper). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To the memory of Gregory Carpenter- Vaughn This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments, ix Author’s Note, xii Introduction, 1 Part One THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE AND ITS CRISIS 1 The First British Empire, the Whig Supremacy, and the East India Company, 19 2 Bourgeois Radicalism and the “Empire of Liberty” in the Age of Pitt, 50 3 The Plassey Revolution in Bengal and the Company’s Civil War in Britain, 88 Part Two THE MAKING OF THE SECOND BRITISH EMPIRE 4 Clive’s Conquest of East India House and the Company’s Conquest of Bengal, 131 5 The New Toryism and the Imperial Reaction at the Accession of George III, 165 contents viii 6 The Triumph of the New Toryism and the Spirit of the Second British Empire, 201 Epilogue, 232 Notes, 249 Index, 295 Acknowledgments This book owes most of its ideas and inspiration to innumerable discus- sions and debates with advisors, colleagues, friends, and students over the past decade. Any interesting conclusions and stimulating arguments it contains are likely the result of the good company I’ve kept over the years; the rest is no one’s fault but my own. I would like to take this opportunity to thank many of the people who have discussed this book’s ideas and chapter drafts with me. This work began life as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Chi- cago, where brilliant advisors and fellow students taught me most of what I know about British and imperial history. I owe an intellectual debt too large to ever repay to my supervisor, Steve Pincus, who taught me to ask big ques- tions and to answer them as boldly and clearly as possible. Having spent the past few years teaching and advising graduate students, I look back in awe at the amount of time Steve devoted to discussing my ideas and arguments, however silly and half-b aked they were. In addition to serving on my disserta- tion committee and providing invaluable commentary on every chapter, Ralph Austen pressed me to think beyond “little England” and to place my historical work in a global context. I’m grateful that Ralph remains a mentor to this day. I was fortunate to take a seminar on Jacobitism with a visiting professor, Alan MacInnes. Alan provided crucial advice and suggestions at every stage of this project, suffering my Whiggish inclinations with good ix
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