Company politics : commerce, scandal, and French visions of Indian empire in the revolutionary era /
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 w...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2023.
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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.
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- 1 online resource (313 pages)
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- Also issued in print: 2023.
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- Specialized.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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0-19-765377-4
0-19-765378-2
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Print version: Company Politics
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