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Bowen, Frank Charles. Port of London. London, 1948, 180 pp. Overview, 1948; photos, dock plans, statistics.

Categories:

port;

Keywords:

port, commercial center, seaport, trade center, entrepot

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Bowen, Frank Charles. The Golden Age of Sail: Indiamen Packets and Clipper Ships. London: Haiton & Smith, 1925, xv, 86 pp.

Keywords:

age of sail, commerce, trade, business, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, technology, advance, modernization, modernisation, seamanship, seafaring, navigation, professional competence

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Bowen, Frank Charles. The King's Navy. London: Methuen, 1925, 252 pp. General account of RN, interwar period.

Keywords:

interwar, Royal Navy, Britain, England, general history, general survey, survey

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Bowen, Frank Charles. The Sea, Its History and Romance. 4 vols. London: H. & T. Smith, 1925-1926.

Categories:

general history; sea;

Keywords:

sea, ocean, maritime , general history, general survey, survey

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Bowen, Frank Charles. Wooden Walls in Action. London: Halton, 1951, 144 pp. Naval battles, 1340-1860.

Keywords:

15th century, fifteenth, 16th century, sixteenth, 17th century, seventeenth, 18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, age of sail, battles

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Bowen, Huv V. "British Politics and the East India Company, 1767-1773." Ph.D. diss, Aberystwyth, 1986.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , East India Company, charter company, Raj , economics, economic policy

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Bowen, Huw V. "400 Years of the East India Company." His Tod, 50 (July 2000): 47-53.

Keywords:

commerce, trade, business, East India Company, charter company, Raj , economics, economic policy, general history, general survey, survey, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Bowen, Huw V. "British Conceptions of Global Empire, 1756-1783." JI&CH, 26 (September 1998): 1-27. Up to loss of 13 colonies.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, empire, imperialism, colonialism, colonization, colonisation, colonial expansion, informal empire ,

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Bowen, Huw V. Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire, 1688-1775. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin, 1996, xiii, 257 pp. Synthesis.

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, 18th century, eighteenth, commerce, trade, business, imperialism, colonialism, colonization, colonisation, colonial expansion, informal empire , empire, economics, economic policy, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Bowen, Huw V. "From Trade to Empire: The Domestic Reconstruction of the English East India Company after 1760." Tijdschrift voor Zeeges-chiedenis, 20 (2001): 47-58.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, commerce, trade, business, empire, enterprise, commerce, trade, business, economy, economic , imperialism, colonialism, colonization, colonisation, colonial expansion, informal empire , East India Company, charter company, Raj , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Bowen, Huw V. "Investment and Empire in the Later Eighteenth Century: East India Stockholding, 1756-1791." EcHR, 2 ser, 42 (May 1989): 186-206.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, commerce, trade, business, East India Company, charter company, Raj , empire, economics, economic policy, imperialism, colonialism, colonization, colonisation, colonial expansion, informal empire , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Bowen, Huw V. "Privilege and Profit: Commanders of East Indiamen as Private Traders, Entrepreneurs and Smugglers, 1760-1813." IJ Mar His, 19 (December 2007): 43-88. Indian textiles & Chinese tea; much expanded in variety & volume.

Keywords:

commerce, trade, business, East India Company, charter company, Raj , officer, quarterdeck, leader , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, 18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth

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Bowen, Huw V. "Sinews of Trade and Empire: The Supply of Commodity Exports to the East India Company during the Eighteenth Century." EcHR, 2 ser, 55 (2002): 466-86.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, commerce, trade, business, empire, East India Company, charter company, Raj , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Bowen, Huw V. The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005, 2006, xiv, 304 pp. Acquisition of vast territory; impact on trade.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, colonialism, colony, commerce, trade, business, East India Company, charter company, Raj , economics, economic policy, empire, enterprise, commerce, trade, business, economy, economic , expansion, colony, colonies, colonization, colonisation, imperialism, domination, hegemony , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Bowen, Huw V. "The East India Company and Military Recruitment in Britain, 1763-1771." See P. Emmer, Organization Interocean, pp. 351-64.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, East India Company, charter company, Raj , recruitment, recruit, recruiting, conscription, conscript, draft, mandatory service

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Bowen, Huw V. War and British Society, 1688-1815. New Studies in Economic & Social History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998, v, 100 pp. For Economic History Society.

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, 18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, economics, economic policy, general history, general survey, survey

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Bowen, Huw V., Lincoln, Margarette & Rigby, Nigel, eds. The Worlds of the East India Company. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002, 2003, 2004, xviii, 246 pp. Foreword: Roy Clare; in association with NMM & University of Leicester; on occasion of 400th anniversary.

Keywords:

East India Company, charter company, Raj , economics, economic policy, commerce, trade, business, empire, imperialism, colonialism, colonization, colonisation, colonial expansion, informal empire , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

Abbreviations
AHR American Historical Review
Alb Albion
alt alternate
Am Nep American Neptune
AQ & DJ Army Quarterly and Defence Journal
ASLIB Association of Libraries (Dissertations & Master's Theses)
BIHR Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
Can His Rev Canadian Historical Review
Can J His Canadian Journal of History
comp Compiled by
DAI Dissertation Abstracts International
EcHR Economic History Review
ed editor or edited by
EnHR English Historical Review
HisAHR Hispanic American Historical Review
HJ Historical Journal (Cambridge Historical Journal)
His Res Historical Research
His Tod History Today
Intell & Nat Sec Intelligence and National Security
IJ Mar His International Journal of Maritime History
IJ Nau Arch International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
IHR International History Review
intro introduction
J Am His Journal of American History
J Asian His Journal of Asian History
JBS Journal of British Studies
J Cont His Journal of Contemporary History
J Econ His Journal of Economic History
JI & CH Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
J Mar Res Journal for Maritime Research
J Mil His Journal of Military History
J Mod His Journal of Modern History
JRUSI Journal of the Royal United Service Institution or Institute
J Soc His Journal of Social History
JSAHR Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
J Stra Stu Journal of Strategic Studies
J Trans His Journal of Transport History
J Wor His Journal of World History
MM Mariner's Mirror
Mil Aff Military Affairs
NHS Naval History Symposium (USNA)
NMM National Maritime Museum
Nav Rev Naval Review
NWCR Naval War College Review (US)
Nel Dis Nelson Dispatch
NIP Naval Institute Press
Nor Mar Northern Mariner
Pac His Rev Pacific Historical Review
P & P Past and Present
Traf Chron Trafalgar Chronicle
trans translated by
UP University Press
USNIP Proceedings of the Naval Institute
Vic Stu Victorian Studies
War & Soc War and Society
War in His War in History
W&MQ William and Mary Quarterly
WSS World Ship Society

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