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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSharman, J C
_eautore
245 1 0 _aOutsourcing Empire :
_bHow Company-States Made the Modern World /
_cAndrew Phillips, J C Sharman.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource (272 p.) :
_b9 maps.
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroducing the Company-State --
_tChapter One. The Rise of the Company-States --
_tChapter Two. Company-States in the Atlantic World --
_tChapter Three. The Fall of the Company-States --
_tChapter Four. The Resurrection of the Company-States --
_tConclusion --
_tReferences --
_tIndex --
_tA Note on the Type
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aHow chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empires shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states-not sovereign states-drove European expansion, building the world's first genuinely international system. Company-states were hybrid ventures: pioneering multinational trading firms run for profit, with founding charters that granted them sovereign powers of war, peace, and rule. Those like the English and Dutch East India Companies carved out corporate empires in Asia, while other company-states pushed forward European expansion through North America, Africa, and the South Pacific. In this comparative exploration, Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman explain the rise and fall of company-states, why some succeeded while others failed, and their role as vanguards of capitalism and imperialism.In dealing with alien civilizations to the East and West, Europeans relied primarily on company-states to mediate geographic and cultural distances in trade and diplomacy. Emerging as improvised solutions to bridge the gap between European rulers' expansive geopolitical ambitions and their scarce means, company-states succeeded best where they could balance the twin imperatives of power and profit. Yet as European states strengthened from the late eighteenth century onward, and a sense of separate public and private spheres grew, the company-states lost their usefulness and legitimacy.Bringing a fresh understanding to the ways cross-cultural relations were handled across the oceans, Outsourcing Empire examines the significance of company-states as key progenitors of the globalized world.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)
650 0 _aInternational cooperation
_xHistory.
650 0 _aInternational trade
_xHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Modern / General.
_2bisacsh
653 _aAdam Clulow.
653 _aAnn Carlos.
653 _aBetween Monopoly and Free Trade.
653 _aChristopher Nierstraz.
653 _aCommerce by the Frozen Sea.
653 _aDavid Veevers.
653 _aEmily Erikson.
653 _aFrank Lewis.
653 _aFreedom's Debt.
653 _aIn the Shadow of the Company.
653 _aMichael Wagner.
653 _aPhilip Stern.
653 _aThe Company and the Shogun.
653 _aThe Company-State.
653 _aThe Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History.
653 _aThe Dutch and English East India Companies.
653 _aThe English Chartered Trading Companies.
653 _aTristan Mostert.
653 _aWilliam Pettigrew.
653 _acolonialism.
653 _ainternational politics.
653 _ainternational studies.
653 _aprivateering.
653 _aworld history.
700 1 _aPhillips, Andrew
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780691206202?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691206202
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