Book · May 16, 2023
Philip Stern turns this view on its head, arguing that corporations drove colonial expansion and governance, creating an overlap between sovereign and commercial power that continues to shape the relationship between nations and ... ...
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Journal ArticleHistorical Journal · February 1, 2022
This article explores the various roles that alcohol played in defining the governance of East India Company fortifications and settlements in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It argues that, much like elsewhere in Europe, Asia, and the colo ...
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Journal ArticleUrban History · August 1, 2021
This article will argue that the history of East India Company Bombay - like that of many foreign British enterprises, and like many other 'global' cities and indeed colonies generally - is best understood as the product of contradictions and contingencies ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Colonialism and Colonial History · June 1, 2020
In the thirty years since the publication of C.A. Bayly’s Imperial Meridian, the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British Empire has moved definitively from the “sidelines” to the center of British imperial historiography. This article asks ho ...
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Book · 2013
Rethinking Mercantilism brings together a group of young early modern British and European
historians to investigate what use the concept "mercantilism" might still hold for both scholars
and teachers of the period. While scholars often find the term uns ...
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Book · 2012
Almost since the event itself in 1757, the English East India Company's victory over the
forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as
the moment when the British Empire in India was born. Examining t ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
From the beginnings of organised English contact with Asia at the dawn of the venteenth century until the rapid expansion of British territorial power in India in the later eighteenth century, the responsibility for governing British interests, people, com ...
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Book · September 22, 2011
This book rethinks the nature of the early English East India Company as a form of polity and corporate sovereign well before its supposed transformation into a state and empire in the mid-eighteenth century. It explores the Company's political and legal c ...
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