Empire, incorporated : the corporations that built British colonialism /

"Historians typically regard the British Empire as a state project aided by corporations. Philip Stern turns this view on its head, arguing that corporations drove colonial expansion and governance, creating an overlap between sovereign and commercial power that continues to shape the relations...

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Autor principal: Stern, Philip J. (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press [2023]
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2840676
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Sumari:"Historians typically regard the British Empire as a state project aided by corporations. Philip Stern turns this view on its head, arguing that corporations drove colonial expansion and governance, creating an overlap between sovereign and commercial power that continues to shape the relationship between nations and corporations to this day"--
Descripció física:1 online resource (399 pages ) illustrations, maps
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780674293489
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9780674293472
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9780674988125
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