Название: Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern WorldАвтор: Jason Sharman
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год: 2020
Формат: pdf, epub
Страниц: 247
Размер: 16,00 Мб
Язык: английский
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 Empires shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states—not sovereign states—drove European expansion, building the world's first genuinely international system...