corporate sovereignty and the early modern foundation of the British Empire in India /
Philip J. Stern.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
1 online resource (xiii, 300 p.) :
ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.