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Outsourcing Empire serves as an up-to-date survey of an essential topic for world historians. * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *

Phillips and Sharman's achievement is to pull together myriad literatures over three centuries and most of the globe, to find patterns only a synthetic treatment can reveal. . . . Lucid, sweeping, and economical ---David Armitage, Times Literary Supplement Outsourcing Empire serves as an up-to-date survey of an essential topic for world historians. * Journal of Interdisciplinary History * A welcome addition to a fast-growing literature on the corporate origins of European empire in the early modern world. . . . Outsourcing Empire is a highly accessible work of scholarship that will appeal particularly to students of international history. ---David Veevers, Journal of British Studies

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Andrew Phillips is Associate Professor of International Relations and Strategy at the University of Queensland. He is the author of War, Religion and Empire. J. C. Sharman is the Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, where he is a fellow of King's College. His books include Empires of the Weak (Princeton) and The Despot's Guide to Wealth Management. Phillips and Sharman are the coauthors of International Order in Diversity.

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