Outsourcing empire : how company-states made the modern world /

From Spanish conquistadors through to pith-helmeted British colonialists, the prevailing vision of European empire-builders has been staunchly statist. But from the early 1600s through to the early twentieth century, from the East Indies to North America to Africa and the South Pacific, it was compa...

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Main Authors:	Phillips, Andrew, 1977- (Author), Sharman, J. C. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Subjects:	International cooperation > History. Europe > Colonies.