{"id":19416,"date":"2023-09-08T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/?p=19416"},"modified":"2023-09-08T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T14:05:10","slug":"new-histories-of-the-east-india-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/new-histories-of-the-east-india-company\/","title":{"rendered":"New Histories of the East India Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 4th August the Society was host to a panel on <em>New Histories of the East India Company <\/em>chaired by RAS Vice President Dr Gordon Johnson. The talk is now available to watch in full on our Youtube channel:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1gLcRdq2kXc?si=kbE8O6Ag41Nrn8kv\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Panellists:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Margot Finn<\/strong>\u00a0is Professor of Modern British History at UCL. The author of\u00a0<em>After Chartism<\/em>\u00a0(1993) and\u00a0<em>The Character of Credit<\/em>\u00a0(2003), and co-editor of\u00a0<em>The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857.<\/em><br \/>\nShe has published extensively on the families and material culture of the East India Company. A former editor of the\u00a0<em>Journal of British Studies<\/em>, she is President of the Royal Historical Society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philip J. Stern<\/strong>\u00a0is a historian of the British Empire and the author of the award-winning book\u00a0<em>The Company-State<\/em>. He is Associate Professor of History at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/duke.edu\/\">Duke University<\/a>. His latest book\u00a0<em>Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism\u00a0<\/em>was published by Harvard in 2023 and was praised by William Dalrymple as:<em>\u00a0&#8220;<\/em><em>A\u00a0remarkable contribution to the current global debate about Empire and a small masterpiece of research and conceptual reimagining.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joshua Ehrlich<\/strong>\u00a0is a historian of knowledge, political thought, the East India Company, the British Empire, and South and Southeast Asia. Currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of Macau, he received a PhD and MA from Harvard University and a BA from the University of Chicago. In his first book,\u00a0<em>The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), Ehrlich shows how a commitment to knowledge was integral to the Company\u2019s ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 4th August the Society was host to a panel on New Histories of the East India Company chaired by RAS Vice President Dr Gordon Johnson. The talk is now available to watch in full on our Youtube channel: &nbsp; &nbsp; Panellists: Margot Finn\u00a0is Professor of Modern British History at UCL. 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