Empire, Incorporated (Record no. 60216)
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fixed length control field | 240503b 2023|||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
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 |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
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 |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Economics & Business History |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Asia History |
690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element | General |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Koha item type | BOOKS |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Current library | Shelving location | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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IMSc Library | First Floor, Rack No: 36, Shelf No: 36 | 338.109 STE | 77756 | BOOKS |