Company Politics: Commerce, Scandal, and French Visions of Indian Empire in the Revolutionary Era
Elizabeth Cross is Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. is a historian of late eighteenth-century France and its empire, with an emphasis on the history of political economy and capitalism. She obtained her PhD from Harvard in 2017 and her paper will be focused on her first monograph which came our last year with Oxford University Press: Company Politics: Commerce, Scandal, and French Visions of Indian Empire in the Revolutionary Era (2023). In her book, she traces the history of the last French East India Company during the late Old Regime and the French Revolution, and explores how, in an age of revolutionary upheaval, the vicissitudes of the early, global economy shaped political and economic institutions on the national level.
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