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BL
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653603
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Stern, Philip J.
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| Title & Author
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The company-state : corporate sovereignty and the early modern foundation of the British Empire in India /\ Philip J. Stern.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2011.
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1 online resource (xiii, 300 p.) :: ill., maps.
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| ISBN
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9780199875184 (electronic bk.)
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: 0199875189 (electronic bk.)
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9780195393736
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0195393732
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Abstract
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This title offers a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the century before its acquisition of territorial power. It argues the Company was no mere merchant, but a form of early modern, colonial state and sovereign that laid the foundations for the British Empire in India.
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East India Company-- History.
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Corporations, British-- India.
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India, History, British occupation, 1765-1947.
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| LC Classification
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HF486.E6S73 2011eb
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