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The company-state : corporate sovereignty and the early modern foundation of the British Empire in India / Philip J. Stern.
LIBRA HF486.E6 S73 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stern, Philip J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East India Company--History.
- East India Company.
- Corporations, British--India.
- Corporations, British.
- History.
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Foundations
- 1 "Planting & Peopling Your Colony": Building a Company-State 19
- 2 "A Sort of Republic for the Management of Trade": The Jurisdiction of a Company-State 41
- 3 "A Politie of Civill and Military Power": Diplomacy, War, and Expansion 61
- 4 "Politicall Science and Martiall Prudence": Political Thought and Political Economy 83
- 5 "The Most Sure and Profitable Sort of Merchandice": Protestantism and Piety 100
- Part 2 Transformations
- 6 "Great Warrs Leave Behind them Long Tales": Crisis and Response in Asia after 1688 121
- 7 "Auspicio Regis et Senatus Angliae": Crisis and Response in Britain after 1688 142
- 8 "The Day of Small Things": Civic Governance in the New Century 164
- 9 "A Sword in One Hand & Money in the Other": Old Patterns, New Rivals 185.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195393736
- 0195393732
- OCLC:
- 655302573
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