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Author: Philip J. Stern (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Duke University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 16.80cm
Weight: 0.590kg
ISBN: 9780195393736
ISBN 10: 0195393732
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 26 May 2011
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<br> A thought-provoking reinterpretation [that] will compel us to reexamine assumptions about colonial companies in general. --H-Net<p><br> In a work of deep erudition and striking originality Philip Stern deftly demolishes many of the categories by which we try to organize our work: are states and companies really different animals, were the early modern Atlantic and Indian Oceans distinct worlds, what, if anything, was new about the post-Plassey British Indian empire? We are politely but firmly directed back to the drawing board. -P. J. Marshall, King's College London<p><br> In The Company-State, Philip Stern has made an important contribution not only to studies of empire, but to early modern history in general. This is an important and innovative reconsideration of the East India Company as a political actor in the first phase of its career. This incisively crafted book will be widely read, cited, and debated. -Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles<p><br> A b
With great skill, Stern has extracted from the archives a cogent and highly engaging narrative of events that even participants found highly tremendously confusing. He deftly conveys the world of the East India company, marshaling striking visual materials and wonderfully evocative quotations from a wide array of Company documents. --Radical History Review A thought-provoking reinterpretation [that] will compel us to reexamine assumptions about colonial companies in general. --H-Net In a work of deep erudition and striking originality Philip Stern deftly demolishes many of the categories by which we try to organize our work: are states and companies really different animals, were the early modern Atlantic and Indian Oceans distinct worlds, what, if anything, was new about the post-Plassey British Indian empire? We are politely but firmly directed back to the drawing board. -P. J. Marshall, King's College London In The Company-State, Philip Stern has made an important contribution not only to studies of empire, but to early modern history in general. This is an important and innovative reconsideration of the East India Company as a political actor in the first phase of its career. This incisively crafted book will be widely read, cited, and debated. -Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles A bracing re-thinking of the early modern East India Company and its role in shaping English practices of empire, governance, 'trade, ' and polity, Philip Stern's book will replace all previous studies on the topic. -Kathleen Wilson, Stony Brook University Stern's rich portrait of the East India Company as a sovereign entity transforms our vision of politics and culture in the early British Empire. Masterfully researched and written with flair, the book places conflicts over corporate sovereignty at the center of a vast and variegated imperial field. The Company-State significantly advances new narratives of global empire
Author Information
Philip J. Stern is Associate Professor of History at Duke University.
