The Company-State

The Company-State
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 315
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ISBN-10 : 9780199930364
ISBN-13 : 0199930368
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Company-State by : Philip J. Stern

Download or read book The Company-State written by Philip J. Stern and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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