Outsourcing Empire. How company states made the modern world
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- Author(s) Phillips, Andrew, & J C Sharman
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2020
- Pages 253pp; illus
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Place Published Princeton NJ
Topics:
- Name Diplomatic issues inc imperialism
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- Name Oxford University Libraries
- City Oxford
- County Oxfordshire
- Country England
- Postcode OX1 3BG
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Describes and explains how chartered companies, rather than sovereign states, were in the vanguard of European imperial expansion and of the international spread of capitalism from the 17th century, charting their rise and their subsequent fall in the 19th century. Deals with Europe as a whole but with much on Britain and entities such as the East India Co. Has chapters: 'Introducing the company state'; 'Rise of the company states'; 'Company states in the Atlantic world'; 'Fall of the company states'; 'Resurrection of the company states'