Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- analyse critically a variety of textual, visual and material culture sources
- engage with the large secondary literature on the East India Company and the British Empire, and contribute to the debates relating to the historiography of the British Empire
- structure your ideas and research findings into well-ordered essays
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- key primary sources and literature, drawn from the history of the East India Company, that provide evidence for historians of the British Empire
- the chronology, personalities and major events in the history of the East India Company, as well as the latest historiographical debates surrounding their interpretation
- the wider context of British political, military and commercial activities in the maritime space of the Indian Ocean
- key examples from the history of the East India Company which you can use to explore a host of global and transnational phenomena
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- develop your time-management skills
- research historical questions and communicate your findings convincingly and concisely in written reports
- locate and use effective textual, visual and material culture sources in the library and on-line
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Completion of assessment task | 40 |
Seminar | 40 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 120 |
Follow-up work | 100 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
H. V. Bowen, J. McAleer and R. J. Blyth (2011). Monsoon Traders: The Maritime World of the East India Company. London: Scala.
C. A. Bayly (1988). Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
P. J. Marshall (1987). Bengal, the British Bridgehead: Eastern India, 1740–1828. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
K. N. Chaudhuri (1978). The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660–1760. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
P. J. Marshall and G. Williams (1982). The Great Map of Mankind: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of Enlightenment. London: Dent.
A. Jackson and A. Jaffer (eds) (2004). Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500–1800. London: V&A Publications.
A. Farrington (2002). Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia, 1600–1834. London: British Library.
C. A. Bayly (1996). Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780–1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
M. Ogborn (2007). Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
. V. Bowen, M. Lincoln, and N. Rigby (eds) (2002). The Worlds of the East India Company. Woodbridge: Boydell.
P. J. Marshall (1976). East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
H. V. Bowen, E. Mancke, J. G. Reid (eds) (2012). Britain’s Oceanic Empire: Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c. 1550– 1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
H. V. Bowen (2005). The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756–1833. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
L. S. Sutherland (1952). The East India Company in Eighteenth-Century Politics. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
P. Lawson (1993). The East India Company: A History. London: Longman.
K. N. Chaudhuri (1965). The English East India Company: The Study of an Early Joint-Stock Company, 1600–1640. London: Frank Cass.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
Assessments designed to provide informal, on-module feedback: - non-assessed oral presentations - tutorials to provide consultation on assessed essays - guidance and advice in class on preparation, completion and presentation of assignments - regular work with primary sources to prepare for the essay and examination exercisesSummative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 50% |
Written assignment | 50% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External