Empire, Incorporated (Record no. 60216)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780674294066 (HB)
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Universal Decimal Classification number 338.109
Item number STE
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Personal name Stern, Philip J.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Empire, Incorporated
Sub Title : The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher Belknap Press
Year of publication 2023
Place of publication London
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 399p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australia, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. 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. Colonial companies were also relentlessly controversial, frequently in debt, and prone to failure. The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because, like empire itself, it was an elusive contradiction: public and private; person and society; subordinate and autonomous; centralized and diffuse; immortal and precarious; national and cosmopolitan—a legal fiction with very real power. Breaking from traditional histories in which corporations take a supporting role by doing the dirty work of sovereign states in exchange for commercial monopolies, Philip Stern argues that corporations took the lead in global expansion and administration. Whether in sixteenth-century Ireland and North America or the Falklands in the early 1980s, corporations were key players. And, as Empire, Incorporated makes clear, venture colonialism did not cease with the end of empire. Its legacies continue to raise questions about corporate power that are just as relevant today as they were 400 years ago.Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation
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Topical Term Colonial Companies
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Topical Term Economics & Business History
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Topical Term Asia History
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The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

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