Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism - Philip J. Stern
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Across four centuries, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures. Colonial companies were also relentlessly controversial, frequently in debt, and prone to failure. The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because it was an elusive contradiction: public and private; person and society; subordinate and autonomous; centralized and diffuse; immortal and precarious; national and cosmopolitan—a legal fiction with very real power.
Breaking from traditional histories in which corporations take a supporting role by doing the dirty work of sovereign states in exchange for commercial monopolies, Philip Stern argues that corporations took the lead in global expansion and administration. As Empire, Incorporated makes clear, venture colonialism did not cease with the end of empire.
Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 5/5
May 19th, 2023
Oughtn’t this be in the Horrific section? With uncanny music?
May 19th, 2023
Thanks, Xavier. :)
@Caesar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMWVW4xtwI
May 19th, 2023
Rousingly terrifying - I can hardly listen to Sith. It makes me want to build a new Death Star, with grills this time.
May 19th, 2023
Thank you!!!
May 20th, 2023
Thank you! No matter what the narrator sounds like I shall hear only a snobbish Eton drone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgNCsOIOz7k&t=57s
May 20th, 2023
Back to the good old days
May 20th, 2023
An “Eton mess.”
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