The Richest East India Merchant

The Life and Business of John Palmer of Calcutta, 1767-1836
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84383-303-1
Verlag: BOYDELL & BREWER INC

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 214 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Worlds of the East India Company

Biography and business history of wealthy British merchant in India reveals much about the nineteenth-century Empire.

John Palmer was the most influential and wealthiest British merchant in British India for the first three decades of the nineteenth century. He ran an `agency house', a global commercial firm involved in banking, the opium trade,shipping, plantation agriculture and trade with Britain, Europe, China, south east Asia and the USA. When his firm went bankrupt in 1830, thousands of people, European and Indian, were ruined, triggering the worst commercial crisis in British India up to that time.
This book, the first major study of a British agency house in India, presents an account of both of Palmer's business and personal life, showing how his personal relations and circumstances shaped his commercial strategies, with ultimately disastrous consequences for Anglo-Indian relations as well as his clients.
ANTHONY WEBSTER is Head of Humanities at the University of Central Lancashire.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Webster, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
The World of John Palmer
The Prince of Merchants
The Management of Palmer and Co.: Strategies, Structures and Problems
Parenthood and Patronage: Race, Kinship, Society and Anglo-Indian Business Culture
John Palmer and the Politics of the East India Company
Ruin and Failure 1820-1830
John Palmer's Life and Legacy
Appendices
Index