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.