Company politics : commerce, scandal, and French visions of Indian empire in the revolutionary era / Elizabeth Cross.
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2023. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197653784 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780197653753.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 23, 2023). |