Company Politics
Commerce, Scandal, and French Visions of Indian Empire in the Revolutionary Era
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 July 2023
- ISBN 9780197653753
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 163x244x29 mm
- Weight 562 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 29 black and white illustrations 432
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Short description:
Focusing on the little-known French East India Company, Company Politics explores corporate politics, financial scandals, and rival empires, shedding light on both the rise of European rule in India and the origins and economic consequences of the French Revolution.
MoreLong description:
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.
From the Seven Years' War through the Revolution of 1789, the history of the French East India Company is a tangle of corruption, reformist illusions, and imperial ambitions. Company Politics offers a commanding interpretation of this episode that explains the curious durability of the much-reviled trading companies, and company states, well into the nineteenth century. Elizabeth Cross is a skilled researcher, a discerning interpreter of politics, and an urbane writer.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Timeline of the Compagnies des Indes
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Company's Two Bodies
Chapter 2 The Revolution of India
Chapter 3 Diplomatic Intentions
Chapter 4 Between the Colossus and the Tiger
Chapter 5 Discredit
Chapter 6 Revolutionary Regeneration
Chapter 7 Notes on a Scandal
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
