Outsourcing Empire : : How Company-States Made the Modern World / / Andrew Phillips, J C Sharman.

How 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 E...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 9 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introducing the Company-State
  • Chapter One. The Rise of the Company-States
  • Chapter Two. Company-States in the Atlantic World
  • Chapter Three. The Fall of the Company-States
  • Chapter Four. The Resurrection of the Company-States
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index
  • A Note on the Type