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Human capital and empire compares the role of Scots, Irish and Welsh within the English East India Company between c. 1690 and c. 1820. It focuses on why the three groups developed such distinctive and different profiles within the corporation and its wider colonial activities in Asia. Besides contributing toā€¦

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Andrew Mackillopā€™s Human Capital and Empire is in the words of the song ā€˜simply the bestā€™ history of the relationship of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the East India Company and its patronage and financial networks.

Based on hugely ambitious primary research, Mackillop provides a detailed, stylish, and inspirational read that tracks to ground the sources for the transformative injections of capital into the Scottish and other economies from India in 1775-1820. These helped to make Scotlandā€”broadly speakingā€”as well off as England and paved the way for the technology investments in steam and speed which helped to quadruple world tradeā€¦

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