Preface | vii | |
Note on Spelling and Dates | xiii | |
Introduction: “A State in the Disguise of a Merchant” | 3 | |
PART ONE FOUNDATIONS | ||
1 | “Planting & Peopling Your Colony”: Building a Company-State | 19 |
2 | “A Sort of Republic for the Management of Trade”: The Jurisdiction of a Company-State | 41 |
3 | “A Politie of Civill and Military Power”: Diplomacy, War, and Expansion | 61 |
4 | “Politicall Science and Martiall Prudence”: Political Thought and Political Economy | 83 |
5 | “The Most Sure and Profitable Sort of Merchandice”: Protestantism and Piety | 100 |
PART TWO TRANSFORMATIONS | ||
6 | “Great Warrs Leave Behind them Long Tales”: Crisis and Response in Asia after 1688 | 121 |
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