Empire, Incorporated
Autor Philip J Sternen Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 mai 2023
Structura și metodologia lucrării Empire, Incorporated se bazează pe o reevaluare radicală a genezei imperialismului britanic, mutând centrul de greutate de la inițiativa statală către rolul determinant al corporațiilor. Credem că această abordare transformă modul în care înțelegem guvernarea colonială, prezentând-o nu ca pe un proiect public susținut de entități private, ci ca pe o succesiune de inițiative corporative care au creat propriile sisteme de suveranitate. Autorul Philip J. Stern organizează materialul pentru a demonstra cum aceste „state-corporație” au prefigurat structurile politice moderne, fuzionând interesele comerciale cu cele administrative. Subliniem importanța acestei ediții în contextul operei anterioare a autorului. Dacă în The Company-State el se concentra pe istoria politică a Companiei Indiilor Orientale înainte de 1757, în volumul de față extinde analiza la nivel global, integrând viziuni despre mercantilism explorate în Mercantilism Reimagined. Putem afirma că Empire, Incorporated acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum British Imperialism de P. J. Cain, dar cu o abordare mult mai axată pe mecanismele juridice și instituționale ale entităților comerciale, spre deosebire de accentul pe „gentlemanly capitalism” din lucrarea lui Cain. De asemenea, oferă o perspectivă mai teoretică asupra puterii corporative decât studiul de caz administrativ regăsit în The Business of Empire de H. V. Bowen. Tonul este unul riguros, academic, oferind o perspectivă interdisciplinară asupra istoriei economice și politice.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0674988124
Pagini: 408
Ilustrații: 17 illus.
Dimensiuni: 168 x 236 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Harvard University Press
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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de istoria politică și economică a colonialismului. Empire, Incorporated oferă o perspectivă nouă asupra modului în care corporațiile au modelat lumea modernă, fiind esențială pentru înțelegerea rădăcinilor istorice ale puterii corporative actuale. Este o resursă valoroasă pentru studenții la istorie și științe politice care caută o analiză profundă a mecanismelor de suveranitate dincolo de granițele statului.
Despre autor
Philip J. Stern este un istoric recunoscut, specializat în istoria Imperiului Britanic și a formelor timpurii de guvernanță globală. Activitatea sa academică se concentrează pe intersecția dintre istoria juridică, politică și economică. Prin lucrări precum The Company-State și editarea volumului Mercantilism Reimagined, Stern s-a impus ca o voce autoritară în reinterpretarea rolului companiilor comerciale în expansiunea imperială, provocând narațiunile tradiționale despre formarea statului și a imperiului prin prisma arhivelor corporative.
Descriere scurtă
"A landmark book...[a] bold reframing of the history of the British Empire."
-Caroline Elkins, Foreign Affairs
An award-winning historian places the corporation-more than the Crown-at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, raising questions about public and private power that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are today.
Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australia, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society remained invested, quite literally, in their ventures. Colonial companies were also relentlessly controversial, frequently in debt, and prone to failure. The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because, like empire itself, it was an elusive contradiction: public and private; person and society; subordinate and autonomous; centralized and diffuse; immortal and precarious; national and cosmopolitan-a legal fiction with very real power.
Breaking from traditional histories in which corporations take a supporting role by doing the dirty work of sovereign states in exchange for commercial monopolies, Philip Stern argues that corporations took the lead in global expansion and administration. Whether in sixteenth-century Ireland and North America or the Falklands in the early 1980s, corporations were key players. And, as Empire, Incorporated makes clear, venture colonialism did not cease with the end of empire. Its legacies continue to raise questions about corporate power that are just as relevant today as they were 400 years ago.
Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation.
Descriere
A Spectator Book of the Year “Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising. A remarkable contribution to the current global debate about empire.” —William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire “Remarkable...The richness of detail and evidence that Stern...brings to his subject is [new]—as is the lucidity with which he organises his material over six long chapters that stretch from the mid-16th century almost to the present.” —Linda Colley, Financial Times “[A] commanding history of British corporate imperialism.” —Michael Ledger-Lomas, London Review of Books Across four centuries and multiple continents, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures. The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because, like empire itself, it was an elusive contradiction: public and private; person and society; subordinate and autonomous; centralized and diffuse; immortal and precarious; national and cosmopolitan—a legal fiction with very real power. Breaking from traditional histories in which corporations take a supporting role by doing the dirty work of sovereign states in exchange for commercial monopolies, Philip Stern argues that corporations took the lead in global expansion and administration. And, as Empire, Incorporated makes clear, colonialism’s legacies continue to raise questions about corporate power that are just as relevant today as they were 400 years ago. Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation.