David Veevers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5747356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Veevers |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Veevers |
| SIGNATURE | VEEVERS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3316-8638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Great Defiance How the World took on British Empire
Introduction While much has been written about how the so-called superior Western civilization conquered and colonized vast regions of the world owing to their advancement in technology and mission civilisatrice, there have been few histories of the people who encountered the British with more advanced militaries, lavish courts, thriving cities, bustling trade and economies, and complex and developed cultures with extravagance lifestyles. Althoug…
The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750
This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural interactions between servants of the English East India Company and the Asian communities and states they came into contact with, revealing how it was this integration of Europeans into non-European economies, states and societies which was central to British imperial and commerc…
Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600-1750
Trading Companies and Business Diplomacy in the Early Modern World
A Business of State
Imperialism
Imperialism refers to the process of acquiring an overseas colonial empire as well as to the state of empire possession—and, more amorphously, to the ability to influence or control the political, economic, or cultural development of a separate geographical entity. It is a word with deep roots in the Roman concept of imperium , but it is most commonly used to refer to the colonial empire building of European powers from the sixteenth century to t…
Inhabitants of the universe’
New research on the early modern colonial state in Asia has emphasized the agency of actors and their networks in a process of state formation, while the rise of global history has similarly highlighted the importance of global connections in forming sites of empire. This article seeks to contribute to this growing literature. It does so by revealing that the families of English East India Company servants, following their counterparts in other E…
The Company as Their Lords and the Deputy as a Great Rajah’
The emergence of new historiographical approaches to the study of British imperialism over the past two decades, has begun to challenge the trade-to-empire narrative which continues to dominate the way historians understand the English East India Company's presence in Asia, anchoring the beginnings of empire there to the mid-eighteenth century. However, as this article argues, Company servants operating on the West Coast of Sumatra sought imperia…
The Company as Their Lords and the Deputy as a Great Rajah’
The emergence of new historiographical approaches to the study of British imperialism over the past two decades, has begun to challenge the trade-to-empire narrative which continues to dominate the way historians understand the English East India Company's presence in Asia, anchoring the beginnings of empire there to the mid-eighteenth century. However, as this article argues, Company servants operating on the West Coast of Sumatra sought imperia…
Inhabitants of the universe’
New research on the early modern colonial state in Asia has emphasized the agency of actors and their networks in a process of state formation, while the rise of global history has similarly highlighted the importance of global connections in forming sites of empire. This article seeks to contribute to this growing literature. It does so by revealing that the families of English East India Company servants, following their counterparts in other E…
The Company as Their Lords and the Deputy as a Great Rajah’
The emergence of new historiographical approaches to the study of British imperialism over the past two decades, has begun to challenge the trade-to-empire narrative which continues to dominate the way historians understand the English East India Company's presence in Asia, anchoring the beginnings of empire there to the mid-eighteenth century. However, as this article argues, Company servants operating on the West Coast of Sumatra sought imperia…
Imperialism
Imperialism refers to the process of acquiring an overseas colonial empire as well as to the state of empire possession—and, more amorphously, to the ability to influence or control the political, economic, or cultural development of a separate geographical entity. It is a word with deep roots in the Roman concept of imperium , but it is most commonly used to refer to the colonial empire building of European powers from the sixteenth century to t…
Inhabitants of the universe’
New research on the early modern colonial state in Asia has emphasized the agency of actors and their networks in a process of state formation, while the rise of global history has similarly highlighted the importance of global connections in forming sites of empire. This article seeks to contribute to this growing literature. It does so by revealing that the families of English East India Company servants, following their counterparts in other E…
The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750
This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural interactions between servants of the English East India Company and the Asian communities and states they came into contact with, revealing how it was this integration of Europeans into non-European economies, states and societies which was central to British imperial and commerc…
Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600-1750
Trading Companies and Business Diplomacy in the Early Modern World
A Business of State
The Great Defiance How the World took on British Empire
Introduction While much has been written about how the so-called superior Western civilization conquered and colonized vast regions of the world owing to their advancement in technology and mission civilisatrice, there have been few histories of the people who encountered the British with more advanced militaries, lavish courts, thriving cities, bustling trade and economies, and complex and developed cultures with extravagance lifestyles. Althoug…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Empire (5 works) · History (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Economic history (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Asian Studies and History (3 works)