Bibliograph

Chartering capitalism, organizing markets, states, and publics, edited by Emily Erikson

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Chartering capitalism, organizing markets, states, and publics, edited by Emily Erikson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Chartering capitalism

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

904420456

Responsibility statement

edited by Emily Erikson

Series statement

Political power and social theory, volume 29

Sub title

organizing markets, states, and publics

Summary

"This volume covers the evolution of the chartered company; contributions employ comparative methods, archival research, case studies, statistical analyses, computational models, network analyses, and new theoretical conceptualizations to map out the complex interactions that took place between state and commercial actors across the globe."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction: new forms of organization and the coordination of political and commercial actors / Emily Erikson and Valentina Assenova -- The ideology of the imperial corporation: 'informal' empire revisited / Philip J. Stern -- Principal agent relations and the decline of the Royal African Company / Matthew Norton -- Raisins d'etat: trade, politics, and diplomacy in the history of the Levant Company / Martin Devecka -- Colonial institutions and trade patterns / Emily Erikson and Sampsa Samila -- Private trade and monopoly structures: the East India companies and the commodity trade to Europe in the eighteenth century / Maxine Berg, Timothy Davies, Meike Fellinger, Felicia Gottmann, Hanna Hodacs and Chris Nierstrasz -- A closed elite? Bristol's Society of Merchant Venturers and the abolition of slave trading / Timo Böhm and Henning Hillmann -- Own, rent, or rent-seek? Vertical integration in historical chartered monopolies / Santhi Hejeebu -- Bottlenecks and East Indies companies: modeling the geography of agency in mercantilist enterprises / Julia Adams and Chris Shughrue -- Scientists as free riders: natural resource exploration and new product discovery in the Dutch East India Company / Matthew Sargent -- An ancient scheme: the Mississippi Company, Machiavelli, and the Casa di San Giorgio (1407-1720) / Carlo Taviani -- 'A state in disguise of a merchant?' The English East India Company as a strategic action field, ca. 1763-1834 / Nicholas Hoover Wilson

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