Andrew Phillips
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global order
From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states—not sovereign states—drove European expansion,
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