Author: East India Company
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Debates at the East-India House, During the Negociation for a Renewal of the East-India Company's Charter
Author: East India Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Empire, Incorporated
Author: Philip J. Stern
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674293487
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
“Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising. A remarkable contribution to the current global debate about Empire and a small masterpiece of research and conceptual reimagining.” —William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire An award-winning historian places the corporation—more than the Crown—at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, raising questions about public and private power that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are today. Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australia, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures. Colonial companies were also relentlessly controversial, frequently in debt, and prone to failure. The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because, like empire itself, it was an elusive contradiction: public and private; person and society; subordinate and autonomous; centralized and diffuse; immortal and precarious; national and cosmopolitan—a legal fiction with very real power. Breaking from traditional histories in which corporations take a supporting role by doing the dirty work of sovereign states in exchange for commercial monopolies, Philip Stern argues that corporations took the lead in global expansion and administration. Whether in sixteenth-century Ireland and North America or the Falklands in the early 1980s, corporations were key players. And, as Empire, Incorporated makes clear, venture colonialism did not cease with the end of empire. Its legacies continue to raise questions about corporate power that are just as relevant today as they were 400 years ago. Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674293487
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
“Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising. A remarkable contribution to the current global debate about Empire and a small masterpiece of research and conceptual reimagining.” —William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire An award-winning historian places the corporation—more than the Crown—at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, raising questions about public and private power that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are today. Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australia, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures. Colonial companies were also relentlessly controversial, frequently in debt, and prone to failure. The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because, like empire itself, it was an elusive contradiction: public and private; person and society; subordinate and autonomous; centralized and diffuse; immortal and precarious; national and cosmopolitan—a legal fiction with very real power. Breaking from traditional histories in which corporations take a supporting role by doing the dirty work of sovereign states in exchange for commercial monopolies, Philip Stern argues that corporations took the lead in global expansion and administration. Whether in sixteenth-century Ireland and North America or the Falklands in the early 1980s, corporations were key players. And, as Empire, Incorporated makes clear, venture colonialism did not cease with the end of empire. Its legacies continue to raise questions about corporate power that are just as relevant today as they were 400 years ago. Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation.
A Catalogue of the Library of the Hon. East-India Company
Author: East India Company. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the Hon. East-India Company
Author: East India Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Correspondence and Proceedings in the Negotiation for a Renewal of the East-India Company's Charter
Author: East India Company
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Breaking Into the Monopoly
Author: Yukihisa Kumagai
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004241728
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In Breaking into the Monopoly, Yukihisa Kumagai examines how the commercial pressure groups of Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester organised campaigns to end the British East India Company’s monopoly from 1812-1813 and 1829-1833.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004241728
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In Breaking into the Monopoly, Yukihisa Kumagai examines how the commercial pressure groups of Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester organised campaigns to end the British East India Company’s monopoly from 1812-1813 and 1829-1833.
Catalogue of the Guildhall Library of the City of London
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London. Instituted in the Year 1824: A-L
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Final Debates on the Renewal and Acceptance of the East-India Company's Charter at Several Courts of Proprietors of East-India Stock, on the 9th, 13th, 16th and 21st July, 1813
Author: East India Company. General Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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