TY - BOOK AU - Mishra, Rupali TI - The Business of State: Commerce Politics and The Birth of The East India Company SN - 9780674987753 U1 - 382.094105 PY - 2018/// CY - Cambridge PB - Harvard Business Review Press KW - Business and Politics - Economic History N1 - 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 ER -