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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Stern, Philip J.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Stern, Philip J.       by title:      Empire, incorporated...       by call number:      382.0941 S839e     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 382.0941 S839e Adult books Checked out Jul 15, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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