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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
[2023]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2840676 |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (399 pages ) illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780674293489 0674293487 9780674293472 0674293479 9780674988125 0674988124 |