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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction: "A State in the Disguise of a Merchant"
- Part I: Foundations
- Chapter 1 "Planning and Peopling Your Colony": Building a Company-State
- Chapter 2 "A Sort of Republic for the Management of Trade": The Jurisdiction of a Company-State
- Chapter 3 "A Politie of Civill and Military Power": Diplomacy, War, and Expansion
- Chapter 4 "Politicall Science and Martiall Prudence": Political Thought and Political Economy
- Chapter 5 "The Most Sure and Profitable Sort of Merchandice": Protestantism and Piety
- Part II: Transformations
- Chapter 6 "Great Warrs Leave Behind them Long Tales": Crisis and Response in Asia after 1688
- Chapter 7 Auspicio Regis et Senatus Angliae": Crisis and Response in Britain after 1688
- Chapter 8 "The Day of Small Things": Civic Governance in the New Century
- Chapter 9 "A Sword in One Hand and Money in the Other": Old Patterns, New Rivals
- Conclusion "A Great and Famous Superstructure"
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index
