| Titre : | Outsourcing Empire : How Company-States Made the Modern World |
| Auteurs : | Andrew PHILLIPS, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Document électronique |
| Editeur : | Princeton University Press, 2020 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-691-20620-2 |
| Format : | 272 p. / epub |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | 905 (Monde : Histoire, économie, société) |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus du Management HISTOIRE ; HISTOIRE ECONOMIQUE ; RELATIONS ECONOMIQUES INTERNATIONALES ; RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES |
| Résumé : | How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom 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 the world's first genuinely international system. Company-states were hybrid ventures: pioneering multinational trading firms run for profit, with founding charters that granted them sovereign powers of war, peace, and rule. Those like the English and Dutch East India Companies carved out corporate empires in Asia, while other company-states pushed forward European expansion through North America, Africa, and the South Pacific. (source éditeur) |
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