Company Politics Commerce Scandal and French by Elizabeth Cross HARDBACK

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Company PoliticsCommerce, Scandal, and French Visions of Indian Empire in the Revolutionary Era\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth Cross\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197653753, 978-0197653753\nSynopsis\nIn 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. \n\nCompany Politics offers a new interpretation of political economy, imperialism, and the .