The Company-State
Author | : Philip J. Stern |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780199930364 |
ISBN-13 | : 0199930368 |
Rating | : 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
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.