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A Business of State - Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company (Hardcover)
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A Business of State - Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard Historical Studies, 188
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At the height of its power around 1800, the English East India
Company controlled half of the world’s trade and deployed a vast
network of political influencers at home and abroad. Yet the story
of the Company’s beginnings in the early seventeenth century has
remained largely untold. Rupali Mishra’s account of the East
India Company’s formative years sheds new light on one of the
most powerful corporations in the history of the world. From its
birth in 1600, the East India Company lay at the heart of English
political and economic life. The Company’s fortunes were
determined by the leading figures of the Stuart era, from the
monarch and his privy counselors to an extended cast of eminent
courtiers and powerful merchants. Drawing on a host of overlooked
and underutilized sources, Mishra reconstructs the inner life of
the Company, laying bare the era’s fierce struggles to define the
difference between public and private interests and the use and
abuse of power. Unlike traditional accounts, which portray the
Company as a private entity that came to assume the powers of a
state, Mishra’s history makes clear that, from its inception, the
East India Company was embedded within—and inseparable from—the
state. A Business of State illuminates how the East India Company
quickly came to inhabit such a unique role in England’s
commercial and political ambitions. It also offers critical
insights into the rise of the early modern English state and the
expansion and development of its nascent empire.
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