Faculty at Home: Ian Barrow

Please join Ian Barrow, professor of history and the director of the Axinn Center for the Humanities, for a lecture entitled “The British East India Company.”

The English East India Company (1600–1858) ran a complex, highly integrated, global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles for the purchase of enslaved people in Africa, and the opium for China’s 19th-century addiction. It also built one of the largest armies in the world—larger, even, than the British army—and used it to establish an Indian empire. This talk will provide an overview of this extraordinary company, explain how it built its maritime and territorial empires, and invite the audience to think of parallels to today’s corporate world.

Ian Barrow is a professor of history and the director of the Axinn Center for the Humanities. He has written three books and is currently working on a book on the independence of India and Pakistan and an article on Indian numismatics. 

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