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Historians typically regard the British Empire as a state project aided by corporations. The author turns this view on its head, arguing that corporations drove colonial expansion and governance, creating an overlap between sovereign and commercial power that continues to shape the relationship between nations and corporations in the twenty-first century. --
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"Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world. It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating their subjects as employees, customers, or competitors. The leaders...
4) Trade, plunder and settlement: maritime enterprise and the genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630
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Explains the course of English overseas expansion and the beginning of the overseas empire.
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