Empire Incorporated
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Author | : Philip J. Stern |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2023-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674293487 |
“Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising. A remarkable contribution to the current global debate about Empire and a small masterpiece of research and conceptual reimagining.” —William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire An award-winning historian places the corporation—more than the Crown—at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, raising questions about public and private power that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are today. Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australia, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures. Colonial companies were also relentlessly controversial, frequently in debt, and prone to failure. The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because, like empire itself, it was an elusive contradiction: public and private; person and society; subordinate and autonomous; centralized and diffuse; immortal and precarious; national and cosmopolitan—a legal fiction with very real power. Breaking from traditional histories in which corporations take a supporting role by doing the dirty work of sovereign states in exchange for commercial monopolies, Philip Stern argues that corporations took the lead in global expansion and administration. Whether in sixteenth-century Ireland and North America or the Falklands in the early 1980s, corporations were key players. And, as Empire, Incorporated makes clear, venture colonialism did not cease with the end of empire. Its legacies continue to raise questions about corporate power that are just as relevant today as they were 400 years ago. Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation.
Author | : David Pallister |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Philip J. Stern |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2023-05-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0674988124 |
Historians typically regard the British Empire as a state project aided by corporations. Philip Stern turns this view on its head, arguing that corporations drove colonial expansion and governance, creating an overlap between sovereign and commercial power that continues to shape the relationship between nations and corporations to this day.
Author | : Brian J Croasdell |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595342078 |
The Roman invasion of southeast Britain had brought much needed prestige to consolidate the new reign of Emperor Claudius. After eight years it has now faded. No significant financial benefits have flowed from the Province of Britain. Instead, the expensive Roman army, of which Claudius is the Commander in Chief, has been unable to suppress the army of the British in the West. The Province is a financial drain on the Empire and the lack of military success is becoming a serious political embarrassment to the Emperor. His enemies, including those closest to him, gather resources, eliminate loyalists and prepare to bring him down. The dramatic power of the scenes of action and description will keep the reader turning the pages as he reads of High King Caratacos who, with the hard-core remnant of the army of the British, tries to maintain his political footing, and how Aurelius Victorinus of the Urban Cohorts, the police service of the City, investigates financial manipulation and murder to uncover the identities of the Roman plotters and then co-ordinates the hunting down of the British High King.
Author | : Empire Air Lines, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1951* |
Genre | : Aeronautics, Commercial |
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Author | : Empire State, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Architecture, Modern |
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Author | : Clarke Wallace |
Publisher | : [Montréal] : Édition du Club Québec loisirs |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Roman |
ISBN | : 9782890290310 |
Author | : Empire Silver Company (Brooklyn, NY) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 19?? |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Interior decoration |
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Author | : Mumia Abu-Jamal |
Publisher | : Empire, Genocide, and Manifest |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780998960005 |
This book strives to set the record straight, to educate, to enlighten and to enliven the people against the corruptions of empire--corruptions that stretch from Columbus's first steps on Hispaniola through yesterday's murderous drone attack. The prevailing myth is that America's prized possessions and greatest exports are democracy and the dream of freedom. The naked truth, say Abu-Jamal and Vittoria, is that the American dream is illusory and America's greatest export is in fact murder - and that along the way to the kill, it thieves, suppresses, and tyrannizes. More than a history book, this is a lively, irreverent, and spirited alternative to the orthodoxy of American exceptionalism.