Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism Stern Philip J.
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism Stern Philip J. An award-winning historian places the corporation--more than the Crown--at the heart of British colonialism,…
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Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism Stern Philip J.
An award-winning historian places the corporation--more than the Crown--at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, raising questions about public and private power that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are today.Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australia, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Colonial companies were also relentlessly controversial, frequently in debt, and prone to failure. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures.
The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because, like empire itself, it
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