The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

Abstract

The Company-State 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 in India.

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The company-state: corporate sovereignty and the early modern foundations of the British Empire in India

Stern, Philip J.

Stern, Philip J.

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The company-state: corporate sovereignty and the early modern foundations of the British Empire in India

Stern, Philip J.

Stern, Philip J.

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