Merchant Kings : : Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870 / / Albert Schrauwers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Schrauwers, Albert,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction corporate governmentality --; Part I State Formation in the Greater Netherlands --; CHAPTER 1 Aristocratic Restoration in Nineteenth-Century “Greater Netherlands” --; Part II Corporate Governmentality in the Realm of the Merchant King --; CHAPTER 2 Policing the Pauper in the Realm of the Merchant King --; CHAPTER 3 The Cultivation System --; CHAPTER 4 Manufacturing Commodity Chains the NHM and cotton --; CHAPTER 5 “Sweetening the Pot” rule by experts in the sugar industry --; CHAPTER 6 Weaving an Empire g. & H. Salomonson and the “social question” --; Part III The Credit Mobilier and Corporate Assemblage --; CHAPTER 7 Political Economy, the “Self-Regulating Market,” and “Economic Governance” --; CHAPTER 8 The Credit Mobilier constructing an economic sovereignty --; CHAPTER 9 The Crédit mobilier and the Railways --; Conclusion assemblage, corporatization, and the government of the economy --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800730519; 9783110997675
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800730519?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Albert Schrauwers.

In the nineteenth century, the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java were the sites of dramatically increased industrialization. Led by a group of “merchant kings” who exemplified gentlemanly capitalism, this ambitious trading project transformed the small, economically moribund Netherlands into a global power. Merchant Kings offers a fascinating interdisciplinary exploration of this episode and reveals not only the distinctive nature of the Dutch state, but the surprising extent to which its nascent corporate innovations were rooted in early welfare initiatives. By placing colony and metropole into a single analytical frame, this book offers a bracing new approach to understanding the development of modern corporations.