The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India
The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India
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公司国家：公司主权与大英帝国在印度的早期现代基础
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2011
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P. Stern
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《公司-国家》重新思考了早期英国东印度公司作为一种政体和公司主权形式的本质，早在它被认为在十八世纪中叶转变为国家和帝国之前就已经存在了。本书认真审视了公司早期的政治和政治思想，探讨了公司作为海外法人的政治和法律构成以及随之而来的从税收、公共卫生到战争和殖民种植园的政治制度和行为。追溯这些制度和行为的意识形态基础，本书揭示了公司领导层如何不仅与底线作斗争，而且还与典型的早期现代治理问题作斗争，例如：臣民和统治者的相互义务；法律、经济以及健全的公民社会和殖民社会之间的关系；以及对人民、商业、宗教、领土和海洋的管辖权和主权的性质。因此，公司国家重新构建了大英帝国历史上一些最基本的叙述，质疑公共机构和私人机构之间的传统区别、英属印度的“商业”和“帝国”时代、大西洋殖民地和亚洲的“贸易世界”、欧洲和亚洲的政治文化、以及东印度群岛的英国人和欧洲对手。从本质上讲，《公司国家》提供了一种对近代早期欧洲和亚洲，特别是连接它们的殖民世界的看法，认为它们存在于复合的、分散的、混合的和重叠的主权概念中，后来才被更现代的单一的、集中的、受领土和国家限制的政治共同体定义所取代。鉴于“全球化”时代对民族国家和国界命运的疑问日益增多，这项研究提供了一个关于非国家和企业政治权力活力的视角，也许在今天和在 17 世纪一样具有现实意义。 OSO 中提供：http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/history/9780195393736/toc.html
The Company-State rethinks the nature of the early English East India Company as a form of polity and corporate sovereign well before its supposed transformation into a state and empire in the mid-eighteenth century. Taking seriously the politics and political thought of the early Company on their own terms, it explores the Company's political and legal constitution as an overseas corporation and the political institutions and behaviors that followed from it, from tax collection and public health to warmaking and colonial plantation. Tracing the ideological foundations of those institutions and behaviors, this book reveals how Company leadership wrestled not simply with the bottom line but with typically early modern problems of governance, such as: the mutual obligations of subjects and rulers; the relationship between law, economy, and sound civil and colonial society; and the nature of jurisdiction and sovereignty over people, commerce, religion, territory, and the sea. The Company-State thus reframes some of the most fundamental narratives in the history of the British Empire, questioning traditional distinctions between public and private bodies, "commercial" and "imperial" eras in British India, a colonial Atlantic and a "trading world" of Asia, European and Asian political cultures, and the English and their European rivals in the East Indies. At its core, The Company-State offers a view of early modern Europe and Asia, and especially the colonial world that connected them, as resting in composite, diffuse, hybrid, and overlapping notions of sovereignty that only later gave way to more modern singular, centralized, and territorially- and nationally-bounded definitions of political community. Given growing questions about the fate of the nation-state and of national borders in an age of "globalization," this study offers a perspective on the vitality of non-state and corporate political power perhaps as relevant today as it was in the seventeenth century. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/history/9780195393736/toc.html