Corporate Character : : Representing Imperial Power in British India, 1786-1901 / / Eddy Kent.
The vastness of Britain's nineteenth-century empire and the gap between imperial policy and colonial practice demanded an institutional culture that encouraged British administrators to identify the interests of imperial service as their own. In Corporate Character, Eddy Kent examines novels, s...
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Kent, Eddy, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Corporate Character : Representing Imperial Power in British India, 1786-1901 / Eddy Kent. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018] ©2014 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: The 8,000-Mile Screwdriver -- Introduction: Empire's Corporate Culture -- 1. Corruption and the Corporation: The Impeachment of Warren Hastings -- 2. How the Civil Service Got Its Name: India as a Noble Profession -- 3. Representing Working Conditions in Company India -- 4. Corporate Culture in Post-Company India -- 5. Unmaking a Company Man in Rudyard Kipling's Kim -- Conclusion: Out of India -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The vastness of Britain's nineteenth-century empire and the gap between imperial policy and colonial practice demanded an institutional culture that encouraged British administrators to identify the interests of imperial service as their own. In Corporate Character, Eddy Kent examines novels, short stories, poems, essays, memoirs, private correspondence, and parliamentary speeches related to the East India Company and its effective successor, the Indian Civil Service, to explain the origins of this imperial ethos of "virtuous service."Exploring the appointment, training, and management of Britain's overseas agents alongside the writing of public intellectuals such as Edmund Burke, Thomas Malthus, Thomas Babington Macaulay, and J.S. Mill, Kent explains the origins of the discourse of "virtuous empire" as an example of corporate culture and explores its culmination in Anglo-Indian literature like Rudyard Kipling's Kim. Challenging narratives of British imperialism that focus exclusively on race or nation, Kent's book is the first to study how corporate ways of thinking and feeling influenced British imperial life. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020) Corporate culture Great Britain History. Corporate culture India History. HISTORY / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015 9783110606812 print 9781442648463 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442617018 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442617018 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442617018.jpg |
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