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Corporate character : representing imperial power in British India, 1786-1901 /

"The vastness of Britain's nineteenth-century empire and the gap between imperial policy and colonial practice demanded an institutional culture that encouraged British administrators to identify the interests of imperial service as their own. In Corporate Character, Eddy Kent examines nov...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kent, Eddy, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : the 8,000 mile screwdriver
  • Introduction : empire's corporate culture
  • Corruption and the corporation : the impeachment of Warren Hastings
  • How the Civil Service got its name : India as a noble profession
  • Representing working conditions in Company India
  • Corporate culture in post-Company India
  • Unmaking a company man in Rudyard Kipling's Kim
  • Conclusion : out of India.