The company-state corporate sovereignty and the early modern foundation of the British Empire in India
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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2011, 2011
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Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | 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 in India |
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Physical Description: | xiii, 300 p. ill., maps |
ISBN: | 9780199896837 |