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.
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.
Philip J. Stern is Assistant Professor of History at Duke University.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: "A State in the Disguise of a Merchant" * Part I: Foundations * Chapter 1 "Planning and Peopling Your Colony": Building a Company-State * Chapter 2 "A Sort of Republic for the Management of Trade": The Jurisdiction of a Company-State * Chapter 3 "A Politie of Civill and Military Power": Diplomacy, War, and Expansion * Chapter 4 "Politicall Science and Martiall Prudence": Political Thought and Political Economy * Chapter 5 "The Most Sure and Profitable Sort of Merchandice": Protestantism and Piety * Part II: Transformations * Chapter 6 "Great Warrs Leave Behind them Long Tales": Crisis and Response in Asia after 1688 * Chapter 7 Auspicio Regis et Senatus Angliae": Crisis and Response in Britain after 1688 * Chapter 8 "The Day of Small Things": Civic Governance in the New Century * Chapter 9 "A Sword in One Hand and Money in the Other": Old Patterns, New Rivals * Conclusion "A Great and Famous Superstructure" * Abbreviations * Glossary * Notes * Index
* Introduction: "A State in the Disguise of a Merchant" * Part I: Foundations * Chapter 1 "Planning and Peopling Your Colony": Building a Company-State * Chapter 2 "A Sort of Republic for the Management of Trade": The Jurisdiction of a Company-State * Chapter 3 "A Politie of Civill and Military Power": Diplomacy, War, and Expansion * Chapter 4 "Politicall Science and Martiall Prudence": Political Thought and Political Economy * Chapter 5 "The Most Sure and Profitable Sort of Merchandice": Protestantism and Piety * Part II: Transformations * Chapter 6 "Great Warrs Leave Behind them Long Tales": Crisis and Response in Asia after 1688 * Chapter 7 Auspicio Regis et Senatus Angliae": Crisis and Response in Britain after 1688 * Chapter 8 "The Day of Small Things": Civic Governance in the New Century * Chapter 9 "A Sword in One Hand and Money in the Other": Old Patterns, New Rivals * Conclusion "A Great and Famous Superstructure" * Abbreviations * Glossary * Notes * Index
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