The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

The Company-State

Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

2011 • 315 pages

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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