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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Stern, Philip J. (Auteur)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press [2023]
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2840676
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Résumé:"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"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (399 pages ) illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780674293489
0674293487
9780674293472
0674293479
9780674988125
0674988124