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The Corporate Commonwealth (Hardcover)
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The Corporate Commonwealth (Hardcover)
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The Corporate Commonwealth traces the evolution of corporations
during the English Renaissance and explores the many types of
corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers
important insights into our own definitions of fiction, politics,
and value. Henry S. Turner uses the resources of economic and
political history, literary analysis, and political philosophy to
demonstrate how a number of English institutions with corporate
associations--including universities, guilds, towns and cities, and
religious groups--were gradually narrowed to the commercial,
for-profit corporation we know today, and how the joint-stock
corporation, in turn, became both a template for the modern state
and a political force that the state could no longer contain.
Through innovative readings of works by Thomas More, William
Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes, among others, Turner
tracks the corporation from the courts to the stage, from
commonwealth to colony, and from the object of utopian fiction to
the subject of tragic violence. A provocative look at the
corporation's peculiar character as both an institution and a
person, The Corporate Commonwealth uses the past to suggest ways in
which today's corporations might be refashioned into a source of
progressive and collective public action.
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