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The Company-State - Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (Hardcover)
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The Company-State - Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (Hardcover)
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The Company-State rethinks the nature of the early English East
India Company as a form of polity and corporate sovereign well
before its supposed transformation into a state and empire in the
mid-eighteenth century. Taking seriously the politics and political
thought of the early Company on their own terms, it explores the
Company's political and legal constitution as an overseas
corporation and the political institutions and behaviors that
followed from it, from tax collection and public health to
warmaking and colonial plantation. Tracing the ideological
foundations of those institutions and behaviors, this book reveals
how Company leadership wrestled not simply with the bottom line but
with typically early modern problems of governance, such as: the
mutual obligations of subjects and rulers; the relationship between
law, economy, and sound civil and colonial society; and the nature
of jurisdiction and sovereignty over people, commerce, religion,
territory, and the sea. The Company-State thus reframes some of the
most fundamental narratives in the history of the British Empire,
questioning traditional distinctions between public and private
bodies, "commercial" and "imperial" eras in British India, a
colonial Atlantic and a "trading world" of Asia, European and Asian
political cultures, and the English and their European rivals in
the East Indies. At its core, The Company-State offers a view of
early modern Europe and Asia, and especially the colonial world
that connected them, as resting in composite, diffuse, hybrid, and
overlapping notions of sovereignty that only later gave way to more
modern singular, centralized, and territorially- and
nationally-bounded definitions of political community. Given
growing questions about the fate of the nation-state and of
national borders in an age of "globalization," this study offers a
perspective on the vitality of non-state and corporate political
power perhaps as relevant today as it was in the seventeenth
century.
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