Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism

Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
ISBN-10
0674988124
ISBN-13
9780674988125
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
409
Language
English
Published
2023-05-16
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Philip J. Stern

Description

Historians typically regard the British Empire as a state project aided by corporations. Philip Stern turns this view on its head, arguing that corporations drove colonial expansion and governance, creating an overlap between sovereign and commercial power that continues to shape the relationship between nations and corporations to this day.

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