The Company Quartet
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
978-1-5266-3335-4 (ISBN)
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‘Rampaging, brilliant, passionate history’ Wall Street Journal
‘Magnificent … Dalrymple has uncovered sources never used before’ Guardian
‘Vivid … unmatched … revolutionary … humane’ Sunday Telegraph
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From multi-award-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple, a four-book collection chronicling the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of the East India Company.
We still talk about the British conquering India, but that phrase disguises a much more sinister reality. For it was not the British government that began seizing chunks of India in the mid-eighteenth century, but a dangerously unregulated private company headquartered in one small office, five windows wide, in the city of London.
Bringing together two decades of meticulous research and masterful narration, ‘The Company Quartet’ tells the remarkable story of how the Mughal empire, which then generated just under half the world’s wealth, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the first global corporate power: the East India Company.
William Dalrymple’s epic, bestselling and multi-award-winning histories are now available in this magnificent paperback box set, presented in a stylish slipcase. Comprised of four individual books – The Anarchy, White Mughals, Return of a King and The Last Mughal – this essential collection spans over two hundred years of tumultuous colonial history, covert political machinations and bloody resistance.
PRIZES & AWARDS:
Winner of the Wolfson Prize for History
Winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize
Winner of the Hemingway Prize
Winner of the Ryzard Kapuscinski Prize
Winner of the Vodafone/Crossword Book award
Winner of the Scottish Book of the Year Prize
Winner of the Arthur Ross Medal of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Three times longlisted and once shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford
Winner of the Sykes Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society
Winner of the President's Medal of the British Academy
Finalist for the Cundil Prize for History
William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s great historians and the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. A frequent broadcaster, he has written and presented three television series, one of which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA. He has also won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the FPA Media Awards, and been awarded five honorary doctorates. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting fellowships at Princeton and Brown. He writes regularly for the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker and the Guardian. In 2018 he was presented with the prestigious President’s Medal by the British Academy for his outstanding literary achievement and for co-founding the Jaipur Literature Festival. William lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.6.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 2458 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5266-3335-3 / 1526633353 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5266-3335-4 / 9781526633354 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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