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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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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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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