- Note on Spelling, Dates, and Sources
- Introduction
- I. Governing the Company
- 1. The Patent and the Formation of the Company
- 2. Constituting Authority: The Court of Committees and the Generality
- 3. Wooing Adventurers: Membership and Useful Men
- 4. Division within the Company: The Problem of Faction and Representation
- 5. Merchants, Trading Companies, and Public Appeal
- II. The Company and the State
- 6. The Changing Patent: Negotiating Privileges between Company and Regime
- 7. “What His Men Have Done Abroad”: Martial Engagements and the Company
- 8. The Dutch East India Company and Amboyna: Crisis and Response in the Company
- 9. Taking Stock and Looking Forward: The Difficulties of the Late 1620s
- 10. Crown Manipulations of the East Indies Trade: Dismantling the Company in the 1630s
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Manuscript and Archival Sources
- Acknowledgments
- Index
HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES


Harvard Historical Studies 188
A Business of State
Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company
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Publication Date: 05/07/2018