Description
Book SynopsisThe book contrasts Scottish, Irish and Welsh involvement in early British imperialism in Asia and reflects on the ways in which this global connection impacted upon all three societies. -- .
Table of ContentsFounding 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
