The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-320

  Stern, Philip J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

British Empire; Colonialism; Corporations; Early modern Empire; East India Company; Imperialism; Sovereignty; State formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922771272     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393736.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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