Shady Acquisitions
Michael Ledger-Lomas: Corporate Imperialism, 21 September 2023
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
by Philip J. Stern.
Harvard, 408 pp., £30.95, May,978 0 674 98812 5 Show More
by Philip J. Stern.
Harvard, 408 pp., £30.95, May,
“... such as Pennsylvania, were simply proprietary enterprises, with an individual, for instance William Penn, receiving huge land grants from an indebted Crown. Yet even these colonies soon encouraged joint stock companies to establish towns or generate commerce. Joint stocks allowed merchants to become ‘portfolio colonialists’, who could entrust the ... ”