The company-state : corporate sovereignty and the early modern foundations of the British Empire in India / Philip J. Stern.

This title offers a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the century before its acquisition of territorial power. It argues the Company was no mere merchant, but a form of early modern, colonial state and sovereign that laid the foundations for the British Empire i...

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Main Author: Stern, Philip J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Foundations
  • pt. 2. Transformations.