A Business of State : : Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company / / Rupali Mishra.
At the height of its power around 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world’s trade and deployed a vast network of political influencers at home and abroad. Yet the story of the Company’s beginnings in the early seventeenth century has remained largely untold. Rupali Mishra’s...
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Mishra, Rupali, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Business of State : Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company / Rupali Mishra. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (370 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Harvard Historical Studies ; 188 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Spelling, Dates, and Sources -- Introduction -- PART ONE: GOVERNING THE COMPANY -- 1. The Patent and the Formation of the Company -- 2. Constituting Authority: The Court of Committees and the Generality -- 3. Wooing Adventurers: Membership and Useful Men -- 4. Division within the Company: The Problem of Faction and Representation -- 5. Merchants, Trading Companies, and Public Appeal -- PART TWO: THE COMPANY AND THE STATE -- 6. The Changing Patent: Negotiating Privileges between Company and Regime -- 7. “What His Men Have Done Abroad”: Martial Engagements and the Company -- 8. The Dutch East India Company and Amboyna: Crisis and Response in the Company -- 9. Taking Stock and Looking Forward: The Difficulties of the Late 1620s -- 10. Crown Manipulations of the East Indies Trade: Dismantling the Company in the 1630s -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Manuscript and Archival Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star At the height of its power around 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world’s trade and deployed a vast network of political influencers at home and abroad. Yet the story of the Company’s beginnings in the early seventeenth century has remained largely untold. Rupali Mishra’s account of the East India Company’s formative years sheds new light on one of the most powerful corporations in the history of the world. From its birth in 1600, the East India Company lay at the heart of English political and economic life. The Company’s fortunes were determined by the leading figures of the Stuart era, from the monarch and his privy counselors to an extended cast of eminent courtiers and powerful merchants. Drawing on a host of overlooked and underutilized sources, Mishra reconstructs the inner life of the Company, laying bare the era’s fierce struggles to define the difference between public and private interests and the use and abuse of power. Unlike traditional accounts, which portray the Company as a private entity that came to assume the powers of a state, Mishra’s history makes clear that, from its inception, the East India Company was embedded within—and inseparable from—the state. A Business of State illuminates how the East India Company quickly came to inhabit such a unique role in England’s commercial and political ambitions. It also offers critical insights into the rise of the early modern English state and the expansion and development of its nascent empire. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Business and politics England History 17th century. Corporations, British India History 17th century. HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package 9783110649826 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2018 English 9783110604030 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2018 9783110603149 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606621 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674919990 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674919990 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674919990/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Spelling, Dates, and Sources -- Introduction -- PART ONE: GOVERNING THE COMPANY -- 1. The Patent and the Formation of the Company -- 2. Constituting Authority: The Court of Committees and the Generality -- 3. Wooing Adventurers: Membership and Useful Men -- 4. Division within the Company: The Problem of Faction and Representation -- 5. Merchants, Trading Companies, and Public Appeal -- PART TWO: THE COMPANY AND THE STATE -- 6. The Changing Patent: Negotiating Privileges between Company and Regime -- 7. “What His Men Have Done Abroad”: Martial Engagements and the Company -- 8. The Dutch East India Company and Amboyna: Crisis and Response in the Company -- 9. Taking Stock and Looking Forward: The Difficulties of the Late 1620s -- 10. Crown Manipulations of the East Indies Trade: Dismantling the Company in the 1630s -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Manuscript and Archival Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Spelling, Dates, and Sources -- Introduction -- PART ONE: GOVERNING THE COMPANY -- 1. The Patent and the Formation of the Company -- 2. Constituting Authority: The Court of Committees and the Generality -- 3. Wooing Adventurers: Membership and Useful Men -- 4. Division within the Company: The Problem of Faction and Representation -- 5. Merchants, Trading Companies, and Public Appeal -- PART TWO: THE COMPANY AND THE STATE -- 6. The Changing Patent: Negotiating Privileges between Company and Regime -- 7. “What His Men Have Done Abroad”: Martial Engagements and the Company -- 8. The Dutch East India Company and Amboyna: Crisis and Response in the Company -- 9. Taking Stock and Looking Forward: The Difficulties of the Late 1620s -- 10. Crown Manipulations of the East Indies Trade: Dismantling the Company in the 1630s -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Manuscript and Archival Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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