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Stern, Philip J.
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Colonial companies -- Great Britain -- History.
Corporations -- Great Britain -- History.
Stock companies -- Great Britain -- History.
Business and politics -- Great Britain -- History.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Commerce.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration.
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Stern, Philip J.
Colonial companies -- Great Britain -- History.
Corporations -- Great Britain -- History.
Stock companies -- Great Britain -- History.
Business and politics -- Great Britain -- History.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Commerce.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration.
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Empire
,
incorporated
: the
corporations
that
built
British
colonialism
/ Philip J. Stern.
by
Stern, Philip J.
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023.
Call #:
382.0941 S839e
Subjects
Colonial companies -- Great Britain -- History.
Corporations
-- Great Britain -- History.
Stock companies -- Great Britain -- History.
Business and politics -- Great Britain -- History.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Commerce.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration.
ISBN:
9780674988125 (hc)
Description:
399 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:
"Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australia,
British
colonialism
was above all the business of
corporations
.
Corporations
conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that
British
and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures. Colonial companies were also relentlessly controversial, frequently in debt, and prone to failure. The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because, like
empire
itself, it was an elusive contradiction: public and private; person and society; subordinate and autonomous; centralized and diffuse; immortal and precarious; national and cosmopolitan -- a legal fiction with very real power. Breaking from traditional histories in which
corporations
take a supporting role by doing the dirty work of sovereign states in exchange for commercial monopolies, Philip Stern argues that
corporations
took the lead in global expansion and administration. Whether in sixteenth-century Ireland and North America or the Falklands in the early 1980s,
corporations
were key players. And, as
Empire
,
Incorporated
makes clear, venture
colonialism
did not cease with the end of
empire
. Its legacies continue to raise questions about corporate power that are just as relevant today as they were 400 years ago. Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the
British
Empire
, as well as a new history of the corporation."--Publisher.
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