In Disguise of a Merchant
Linda Colley: Company-States, 30 July 2020
Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World
by Andrew Phillips and J.C. Sharman.
Princeton, 253 pp., £25, June 2020,978 0 691 20351 5 Show More
by Andrew Phillips and J.C. Sharman.
Princeton, 253 pp., £25, June 2020,
“... of the virtues of this intelligent and well-researched book by Andrew Phillips and Jason Sharman is that it provides long and wide historical contexts in which such questions can be posed. The authors’ central argument is that ‘some of the most important actors in the crucial formative stages of the modern international system were neither states ... ”
