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

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CONTENTS
Prefacevii
Note on Spelling and Datesxiii
Introduction: “A State in the Disguise of a Merchant”3
PART ONE FOUNDATIONS
1“Planting & Peopling Your Colony”: Building a Company-State19
2“A Sort of Republic for the Management of Trade”: The Jurisdiction of a Company-State41
3“A Politie of Civill and Military Power”: Diplomacy, War, and Expansion61
4“Politicall Science and Martiall Prudence”: Political Thought and Political Economy83
5“The Most Sure and Profitable Sort of Merchandice”: Protestantism and Piety100
PART TWO TRANSFORMATIONS
6“Great Warrs Leave Behind them Long Tales”: Crisis and Response in Asia after 1688121

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