'Hereditary Guardians of the Nation': The House of Lords and the East India Company in the Age of the American Revolution.
The reform of the East India Company following its acquisition of vast territories in Bengal in the mid 1760s raised hopes that it could provide Britain with a fund to alleviate the burdens of the national debt in the wake of the failure of American taxation. Concomitantly, it elicited genuine fears...
| Publicado en: | Parliamentary History Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 159 - 190 |
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