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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard Historical Studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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