The Company-State —— Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

----- 公司状态：公司主权和印度英国帝国的早期现代基础

ISBN: 9780195393736 出版年：2011 页码：315 Stern, Philip J Oxford University Press

The Company-State 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.