عنوان

The corporate commonwealth :

(Number (ISBN

022636335X

(Number (ISBN

9780226363356

Erroneous ISBN

9780226363493

Title Proper

The corporate commonwealth :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

pluralism and political fictions in England, 1516-1651 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Henry S. Turner.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxvi, 311 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index.

Text of Note

Corporation as common constitution -- The political economy of Sir Thomas Smith -- Richard Hooker's corporate Christians -- The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques, and discoveries of the English corporation -- Dekker and Company -- Shakespeare's thing of nothing -- Francis Bacon's political ecology -- Leviathan, Incorporated.

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Text of Note

The Corporate Commonwealth traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important insights into our own definitions of fiction, politics, and value. Henry S. Turner uses the resources of economic and political history, literary analysis, and political philosophy to demonstrate how a number of English institutions with corporate associations - including universities, guilds, towns and cities, and religious groups - were gradually narrowed to the commercial, for-profit corporation we know today, and how the joint-stock corporation, in turn, became both a template for the modern state and a political force that the state could no longer contain. Through innovative readings of works by Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes, among others, Turner tracks the corporation from the courts to the stage, from commonwealth to colony, and from the object of utopian fiction to the subject of tragic violence. A provocative look at the corporation's peculiar character as both an institution and a person, The Corporate Commonwealth uses the past to suggest ways in which today's corporations might be refashioned into a source of progressive and collective public action. -- from dust jacket.

International Standard Book Number

9780226363493

Corporations-- England-- History-- 16th century.

Corporations-- England-- History-- 17th century.

Corporations-- Political aspects-- England.

State, The-- Philosophy.

Corporations-- Political aspects.

Corporations.

England

Kapitalgesellschaft

Rechtsform

State, The-- Philosophy.

Unternehmen

Wirtschaftsgeschichte

England.

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Edition

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Book number

Turner, Henry S.

Date of Transaction

20200822102227.0

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[Book]

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