The Company-State
The Company-State

Author: Philip J. Stern

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-11-29

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0199930368

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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.

Historiography of Europeans in Africa and Asia, 1450–1800
Historiography of Europeans in Africa and Asia, 1450–1800

Author: Anthony Disney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-25

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1351930680

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The first part of this volume deals with the changes and continuities in historical approaches over the last fifty years, with three further sections focusing on initial contacts, formal presences, and informal presences. Emphasis has been placed on the major European players in Asia and Africa before 1800 - the Portuguese, Dutch and English, without neglecting the role played by the French, Spanish, Scandinavians and others.

Essays
Essays

Author: Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain)

Publisher:

Published: 1921

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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