The company-state: corporate sovereignty and the early modern foundations of the British Empire in India

 Content: Introduction: \"a state in the disguise of a merchant\" --
 \"Planting & peopling your colony\": building a company-state --
 \"A sort of republic for the management of trade\": the jurisdiction of a company-state --
 \"A politie of civill and military power\": diplomacy, war, and expansion --
 \"Politicall science and martiall prudence\": political thought and political economy --
 \"The most sure and profitable sort of merchandice\": Protestantism and piety --
 \"Great warrs leave behind them long tales\": crisis and response in Asia after 1688 --
 \"Auspicio regis et senatus Angliae\": crisis and response in Britain after 1688 --
 \"The day of small things\": civic governance in the new century --
 \"A sword in one hand & money in the other\": old patterns, new rivals --
 Conclusion: \"A great and famous superstructure\".
 Abstract:             
              The Company-State offers a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the century before its acquisition of territorial power. It argues the Company was no mere merchant, but a form of early modern, colonial state and sovereign that laid the foundations for the British Empire in India.                 Read more...