Pressure from Leadenhall
The East India Company Lobby, 1660–1678
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9622553 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arnold A Sherman (Virginia Tech, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 329-355 |
| Publication date | 1976-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3112999 |
| OpenAlex | W2089109324 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 15 |
Dramatic evidence of the vital role played by the British East India Company in Britain's rise to preeminence in world trade is revealed in the intimate relations between the Company, Parliament, and Charles II. Britain needed an agency for pressing the struggle against the resourceful Dutch, and the King needed revenue. The Company needed assurance in the form of a charter that its existence would be continuous; Navigation Acts to give meaning to its trading monopoly; laws against “interlopers” in its trading areas; and relief from mercantilist prejudices so that it could buy for cash where British goods were not in demand. Government and Company provided each other with all these, in a pragmatic arrangement that overrode prejudices and political sensitivities
Agency (philosophy · Charter · Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics · Management · Managerialism · Market economy · Meaning (existential · Mercantilism · Monopoly · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Revenue · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Finance · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Scottish History and National Identity
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,34 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2025 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |