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Mishra, Rupali

The Business of State: Commerce Politics and The Birth of The East India Company - Cambridge Harvard Business Review Press 2018 - 412p - Harvard Historical Studies .

Part I. Governing the Company
1. The patent and the formation of the Company
2. Constituting authority: the court of committees and the generality
3. Wooing adventurers: membership and useful men
4. Division within the Company: the problem of faction and representation
5. Merchants, trading companies, and public appeal

Part II. The Company and the State
6. The changing patent: negotiating privileges between Company and regime
7. "What his men have done abroad": martial engagements and the Company
8. The Dutch East India Company and Amboyna: crisis and response in the Company
9. Taking stock and looking forward: the difficulties of the late 1620s
10. Crown manipulations of the East Indies trade: dismantling the Company in the 1630s.

ISBN: 9780674987753

Subjects--Personal Names:
Business and Politics - Economic History

Dewey Class. No.: 382.094105 / MIS