Cumbria's encounter with the East Indies c.1680-1829 : gentry and middling provincial families seeking success

In both the historiographies of Cumbria and empire respectively, there are numerous allusions to Cumbrians in the East Indies. However, the importance and implications of that encounter have never been systematically explored. This thesis enumerates well over four hundred middling and gentry Cumbria...

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Main Author: Saville-Smith, Katherine Julie
Published: Lancaster University 2016
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.689209