Company politics

• Verfasst von: Cross, Elizabeth [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Company politics
• Titelzusatz: commerce, scandal, and French visions of Indian empire in the revolutionary era
• Verf.angabe: Elizabeth Cross
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: 1 online resource
• Illustrationen: illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white).
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Also issued in print: 2023. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 23, 2023)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-765378-4
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197653753.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Industry
• Sach-SW: Business & Management
• K10plus-PPN: 1854297856
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

In the wake of the Seven Years' War and the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent, the French monarchy chartered a new East India Company. The Nouvelle Compagnie des Indes was an attempt to maintain French diplomatic and financial credit among European rivals and trading partners within a region integral to the broader imperial economy. Reimagining French power as subsisting through an informal empire of trade, instead of a territorial empire of conquest, officials and intellectuals sought to remake the trading company as a private, 'purely commercial' actor, rather than a sovereign company-state. This book offers a new interpretation of political economy, imperialism, and the history of the corporation during the late Old Regime and the French Revolution.