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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
[2023]
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2840676 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Incorporating empire
- 1. Initial public offerings : the age of discovery
- 2. Municipal bonds : the age of crisis
- 3. Corporate finance : the age of projects
- 4. Hostile takeovers : the age of revolutions
- 5. Corporate innovations : the age of reform
- 6. Limiting liabilities : the age of imperialism
- Epilogue. Winding up.