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The company-state corporate sovereignty and the early modern foundation of the British Empire in India /
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- Title
- The company-state corporate sovereignty and the early modern foundation of the British Empire in India /
- Author/Creator
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Stern, Philip J.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publisher Date
- 2011.
- Description
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This title 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.
- Subject
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East India Company--History.
Corporations, British--India.
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
- Links
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Online access from Oxford Scholarship Online
- Library URL
- 991001002189706306
