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. Company Politics offers a new interpretation of political economy, imperialism, and the history of the corporation during the late Old Regime and the French Revolution. Despite its reputation for speculation, corruption, and scandal, Elizabeth Cross argues that the "New Company" emerged from the unique circumstances France faced in India as a weakened imperial power vis à vis the expanding British East India Company. Seeking to control the Company for their own purposes, French government officials, theorists, and private financial actors clashed over differing notions of political economy, debt, and imperial power for Europe and the Indian Ocean world. In doing so, they envisioned new alignments between state and market, challenged the legitimacy of the Old Regime's economic and imperial policies, and sought to revolutionize the underlying corporation itself through progressive demands of corporate self-governance. Thus, the New Company should be seen as an innovative capitalist actor in its own right, not a mere derivative of its Anglo-Dutch competitors. A valuable contribution to scholarship on capitalism, empire, and globalization, Company Politics uses the Company's history to present the Revolutionary Era as one of dynamic economic ideologies, practices, and experimentation, rather than only one of crisis and decline.

Company Politics: Commerce, Scandal, and French Visions of Indian Empire in the Revolutionary Era

Business & Money

Cross, Elizabeth

Biography & History

Oxford University Press

Accompanies a first-time Australian exhibit of major pieces that seldom leave Norway. Includes works from his primary museums: Munch Museet, Oslo, National Gallery, Oslo and the Kunst-museum Bergen, Norway.

Edvard Munch: The Frieze Of Life

Arts & Photography

Gott, Ted

History & Criticism

Natl Gallery of Victoria

Julius Caesar's Gallic War chronicles his nine-year conquest of Gaul (modern France and Belgium) from 58 to 50 BCE. This edition presents the first third of Book VII (Chapters 1-28) with Latin text, same-page vocabulary, and explanatory commentary. Within these pages the Roman imperator describes the rise of the Gallic leader Vercingetorix, the early moves of his peoples' rebellion against Roman domination, and the pivotal struggle between the Gallic coalition and the Roman legions for the Gallic town of Avaricum.

AVARICVM: A Latin Text of Caesar's Gallic War VII 1-28 with Running Vocabulary and Commentary (Caesar: Gallic War Book VII)

Reference

Lee, Fiona

Cross, Katherine

Lanier, John

E, Lian

Haarz, Zachary Shepherd

Olmeda, Peter

Peters, Clara Grey

Serôdio, Marilia Chiu

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Pixelia Publishing

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