The company-state : corporate sovereignty and the early modern foundations 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 |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2011]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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: | 1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199875184 0199875189 9786613129383 6613129380 9780199896837 0199896836 0199930368 9780199930364 1283129388 9781283129381 |