The Company-State by Philip J Stern
The Company-State offers a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the century before its acquisition of territorial power. It argues the Company was no mere merchant, but a form of early modern, colonial state and sovereign that laid the foundations for the British Empire in India.
With great skill, Stern has extracted from the archives a cogent and highly engaging narrative of events that even participants found highly tremendously confusingHe deftly conveys the world of the East India company, marshaling striking visual materials and wonderfully evocative quotations from a wide array of Company documents. * Radical History Review *
A thought-provoking reinterpretation that will compel us to reexamine assumptions about colonial companies in general. * H-Net *
In a work of deep erudition and striking originality Philip Stern deftly demolishes many of the categories by which we try to organize our work: are states and companies really different animals, were the early modern Atlantic and Indian Oceans distinct worlds, what, if anything, was new about the post-Plassey British Indian empire? We are politely but firmly directed back to the drawing board. * P. J. Marshall, King's College London *
In The Company-State, Philip Stern has made an important contribution not only to studies of empire, but to early modern history in general. This is an important and innovative reconsideration of the East India Company as a political actor in the first phase of its career. This incisively crafted book will be widely read, cited, and debated. * Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles *
A bracing re-thinking of the early modern East India Company and its role in shaping English practices of empire, governance, 'trade,' and polity, Philip Stern's book will replace all previous studies on the topic. * Kathleen Wilson, Stony Brook University *
A thought-provoking reinterpretation that will compel us to reexamine assumptions about colonial companies in general. * H-Net *
In a work of deep erudition and striking originality Philip Stern deftly demolishes many of the categories by which we try to organize our work: are states and companies really different animals, were the early modern Atlantic and Indian Oceans distinct worlds, what, if anything, was new about the post-Plassey British Indian empire? We are politely but firmly directed back to the drawing board. * P. J. Marshall, King's College London *
In The Company-State, Philip Stern has made an important contribution not only to studies of empire, but to early modern history in general. This is an important and innovative reconsideration of the East India Company as a political actor in the first phase of its career. This incisively crafted book will be widely read, cited, and debated. * Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles *
A bracing re-thinking of the early modern East India Company and its role in shaping English practices of empire, governance, 'trade,' and polity, Philip Stern's book will replace all previous studies on the topic. * Kathleen Wilson, Stony Brook University *
Assistant Professor of History, Duke University
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195393736 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195393732 |
| Title | The Company-State |
| Author | Philip J Stern |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2011-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize of the American Historical Association 2011 Honorable mention, Ralph Gomory Prize of the Business History Conference. |
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