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Biography and business history of wealthy British merchant in India reveals much about the nineteenth-century Empire.

This book examines the role of mercantile networks in linking Asian economies to the global economy. It contains fourteen contributions on East, Southeast and South Asia covering the period from 1750 to the present.

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2nd edition.

After decades of flying under the radar, co-operation as a principle of business and socio-economic organisation is moving from the margins of political thought into the mainstream. Following the 2008 financial crisis, the consequences of resource inequalities at local and global levels have become more apparent to political leaders and the public at large, leading to a renewal of interest in the international co-operative movement, which toda...

Through the work of poets such as Luci Tapahonso, Laura Tohe, Rex Lee Jim, Gloria Emerson, Blackhorse Mitchell, Esther Belin, Sherwin Bitsui, and many others, Webster provides new ways of thinking about contemporary Navajo poets and poetry. Intimate Grammars offers an exciting new ethnography of speaking, ethnopoetics, and discourse-centered examinations of language and culture.

Of the nearly 300, 000 people who identified themselves as Navajo in the 2000 U.S. Census, 178, 014 identified themselves as speakers of Navajo. While these rough numbers give an impression that the Navajo language is widely spoken, scholars continually point out that it is a threatened language and that young Navajos are not learning the language at a rate that will ensure its continued use. Poetry, however, written and performed in both Nava...

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Examines how and why the East India Company was transformed from a commercial trading company to an institution of government, and then abolished.