Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William MacKinnon and His Business Network, 1823-1893

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 Enterprising Scots
	1 East India merchants: Clyde to Calcutta, 1823–61
	2 The British India Steam Navigation Company, 1856–70
	3 Extending the system: Australia, Indonesia and Arabian waters, 1862–70
	4 Business networking, 1860–70
Part 2 Suez and after
	5 The Suez Canal, India and the Netherlands Indies, 1869–82
	6 The Persian Gulf, the Zanzibar mail contracts, and the London-Gulf line, 1869–82
	7 Eastern Africa, 1872–82
	8 ‘Aristocratic capitalism’, railways and the Central African project, 1876–82
	9 Family, group and network, 1870–82
	10 The failure of the City of Glasgow Bank, 1878–82
Part 3 Shipping power and imperial rivalries
	11 The Australian opening, 1880–93
	12 India: competition, collaboration and consolidation, 1882–93
	13 Indonesia: nationalism in Dutch colonial policy, 1882–90
	14 Imperial politics: Egypt and the scramble for Africa, 1882–6
	15 Interludes: a Scottish election, an African expedition and a Persian railway, 1885–7
	16 A false dawn: East Africa and the western Indian Ocean, 1887–90
	17 The fall of the Imperial British East Africa Company, 1890–3
Conclusion
	18 Maritime enterprise and empire
Appendix: family trees
Sources
Index