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

by Philip J. Stern

Book Overview

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. Examining the Company's political and intellectual history in the century prior to this supposed transformation, The Company-State rethinks this narrative and the nature of the early East India Company itself...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199930368
• ISBN13: 9780199930364
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"