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Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World Hardcover – June 2, 2020

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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 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. In this comparative exploration, Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman explain the rise and fall of company-states, why some succeeded while others failed, and their role as vanguards of capitalism and imperialism.

In dealing with alien civilizations to the East and West, Europeans relied primarily on company-states to mediate geographic and cultural distances in trade and diplomacy. Emerging as improvised solutions to bridge the gap between European rulers’ expansive geopolitical ambitions and their scarce means, company-states succeeded best where they could balance the twin imperatives of power and profit. Yet as European states strengthened from the late eighteenth century onward, and a sense of separate public and private spheres grew, the company-states lost their usefulness and legitimacy.

Bringing a fresh understanding to the ways cross-cultural relations were handled across the oceans, Outsourcing Empire examines the significance of company-states as key progenitors of the globalized world.

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"Phillips and Sharman’s achievement is to pull together myriad literatures over three centuries and most of the globe, to find patterns only a synthetic treatment can reveal. . . . Lucid, sweeping, and economical"---David Armitage, Times Literary Supplement

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Outsourcing Empire serves as an up-to-date survey of an essential
topic for world historians.

" ― Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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A welcome addition to a fast-growing literature on the corporate origins of European
empire in the early modern world. . . . Outsourcing Empire is a highly accessible work of scholarship that will appeal particularly to students of international history.

"---David Veevers, Journal of British Studies

"Outsourcing Empire provides a solid contribution to the typically Eurocentric-focused scholarship of international politics."---Daniel Blumlo, World History Connected

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"Outsourcing Empire is the first book to consider company-states from a global and comparative perspective, and to explore the systemic implications of this important and peculiar form of expansionism."―Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History

"This book is a superb addition to the literature on the interaction of the West and the rest of the globe after the maritime revolution in Europe during the late fifteenth century."―Hendrik Spruyt, Northwestern University

"This accomplished and valuable book introduces the neglected subject of company-states to the literature on the formation of the global political order. With clear and engaging writing, Phillips and Sharman make an important case for the impact of company-states and advance the history of global international relations and the chartered companies."―Emily Erikson, Yale University

"This fascinating book presents a bold and powerful argument, sustains a clear narrative, and deftly weaves together theory and history. Its comparative element, which brings together the activities of company-states in Asia, the Americas, and Africa, is a major strength, as is its assessment of why some company-states succeeded and others failed. Outsourcing Empire is a signal contribution to debates in historical international relations."―George Lawson, London School of Economics

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Princeton University Press (June 2, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0691203512
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0691203515
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches

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"Outsourcing Empire" is a clearly-written book about an interesting topic -- how European countries often aimed to build "empire on the cheap" by endowing private companies with sovereign powers (including the power to wage war). Readers should know that the book is not, strictly speaking, a work of narrative history. Rather, it is an analysis of the functioning and limitations of these weird hybrid entities, with actual companies (such as the East India Company) treated as case studies. The writing is quite dry and abstract.

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It is written so boring, that I cant keep my self awake while reading it...

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It is written so boring, that I cant keep my self awake while reading it...
Explanations in book are meant for 5year old child, not for someone who actually would be reading this. All sentences in this book can be compressed in 4 pages.... so, you can imagine how many useless yapping has been put into it!

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