Citation

Stern PJ. History Compass 2009; 7(4): 1146-1180.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1478-0542.2009.00617.x

PMID

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Abstract

This article explores recent developments in the historiography of the English East India Company. It proposes that there has been an efflorescence of late in scholarship on the Company that is directly tied both to the resurgence of imperial studies in British history as well as to contemporary concerns such as globalization, border-crossings, and transnationalism. These transformations have in turn begun to change some of the most basic narratives and assumptions about the Company's history. At the same time, they have also significantly widened the number and types of scholars interested in the Company, broadening its appeal beyond ‘Company studies’ to have relevance for a range of historical concerns, in British domestic history, Atlantic history, global history, as well as amongst literary scholars, geographers, sociologists, economists, and others.