Outsourcing Empire by Andrew Phillips
How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global order.
"Phillips and Sharman’s achievement is to pull together myriad literatures over three centuries and most of the globe, to find patterns only a synthetic treatment can reveal. . . Lucid, sweeping, and economical"---David Armitage, Times Literary Supplement
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"Outsourcing Empire provides a solid contribution to the typically Eurocentric-focused scholarship of international politics."---Daniel Blumlo, World History Connected
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Outsourcing Empire serves as an up-to-date survey of an essential
topic for world historians.
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A welcome addition to a fast-growing literature on the corporate origins of European
empire in the early modern world. . . . Outsourcing Empire is a highly accessible work of scholarship that will appeal particularly to students of international history.
"Outsourcing Empire provides a solid contribution to the typically Eurocentric-focused scholarship of international politics."---Daniel Blumlo, World History Connected
Andrew Phillips is Associate Professor of International Relations and Strategy at the University of Queensland. He is the author of War, Religion and Empire. J. C. Sharman is the Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, where he is a fellow of King’s College. His books include Empires of the Weak (Princeton) and The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management. Phillips and Sharman are the coauthors of International Order in Diversity.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691203515 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691203512 |
| Title | Outsourcing Empire |
| Author | Andrew Phillips |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2020-06-02 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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