Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World

by Jason Sharman, Andrew Phillips, J.C. Sharman, et al.

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How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global order

From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states--not sovereign states--drove European expansion, building...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691203512

ISBN13:9780691203515

Release Date:June 2020

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"

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