The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India by Philip J. Stern

The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

Philip J. Stern

300 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

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Almost since the event itself in 1757, the English East India Company's victory over the forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born. Exami...

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