EAST India Co.SPICESBLAKE, John Bradby18TH century paintingINTERNATIONAL tradePRICESThe British East India Company was founded to compete with the Dutch in the lucrative trade in spices, but the Company soon abandoned this attempt and concentrated instead on trading cotton goods from the Indian ...
The British East India Company was founded by royal charter in 1600 as a joint stock trading company andgovernedby a company court of directors from London. In 1784, the British government also began to oversee the company�s affairs in India via a board of control. From the mid-18th cen...
aSingapore's postal service began when it was founded in 1819 as a trading post of the British East India Company. At first, there was not much mail. Postage, usually paid by the recipient, was very expensive. Only military officers and merchants used the postal service. 当它在1819建立了...
The East India Company drove the expansion of the British Empire in Asia. The company's army had first joined forces with the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War, and the two continued to co-operate in arenas outside India: the eviction of the French from Egypt (1799),[107] the ca...
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Tea remained rare and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it. ...
This article establishes that the first museum in China was not the Zhendan Museum in Shanghai, founded by the French Jesuit Pierre Marie Heude (1836–1902) in 1868, but the "British Museum in China", founded in 1829 by three supercargoes of the English East India Company, in Macao, a...
Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it. ...
The most well-known trading company was the East India Company, which had a trading monopoly in India and parts of East Asia. The Royal African Company was involved in trade with Africa, the slave trade in particular. All these activities accumulated a lot of capital for Britain's future ...
For about 250 years, the British East India Company evolved from a company chartered by the British Crown to trade with the East Indies into de facto British administrator of India, which set off the era of British colonization of the Indian Subcontinent. Learning Objectives Describe the East In...