{"id":27146,"date":"2021-08-12T11:05:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T11:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=27146"},"modified":"2021-08-12T11:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T11:06:01","slug":"j-c-sharman-andrew-phillips-outsourcing-empire-how-company-states-made-the-modern-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=27146","title":{"rendered":"J. C. Sharman, Andrew Phillips, \u201cOutsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as <em>Outsourcing Empire<\/em> shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states\u2014not sovereign states\u2014drove European expansion, building the world\u2019s first genuinely international system. Company-states were hybrid ventures: pioneering multinational trading firms run for profit, with founding charters that granted them sovereign powers of war, peace, and rule. Those like the English and Dutch East India Companies carved out corporate empires in Asia, while other company-states pushed forward European expansion through North America, Africa, and the South Pacific. In this comparative exploration, Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman explain the rise and fall of company-states, why some succeeded while others failed, and their role as vanguards of capitalism and imperialism.<br><br>In dealing with alien civilizations to the East and West, Europeans relied primarily on company-states to mediate geographic and cultural distances in trade and diplomacy. Emerging as improvised solutions to bridge the gap between European rulers\u2019 expansive geopolitical ambitions and their scarce means, company-states succeeded best where they could balance the twin imperatives of power and profit. Yet as European states strengthened from the late eighteenth century onward, and a sense of separate public and private spheres grew, the company-states lost their usefulness and legitimacy.<br><br>Bringing a fresh understanding to the ways cross-cultural relations were handled across the oceans, <em>Outsourcing Empire<\/em> examines the significance of company-states as key progenitors of the globalized\u00a0world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Andrew Phillips <\/strong>is associate professor of international relations and strategy at the University of Queensland. He is the author of <em>War, Religion and Empire<\/em>. <strong>J. C. Sharman<\/strong> is the Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, where he is a fellow of King\u2019s College. His books include <em>Empires of the Weak <\/em>(Princeton) and <em>The Despot\u2019s Guide to Wealth Management<\/em>. Phillips and Sharman are the coauthors of <em>International Order in Diversity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<em>Outsourcing Empire<\/em> serves as an up-to-date survey of an essential topic for world historians.&#8221;\u2014<em>Journal of Interdisciplinary History<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Outsourcing Empire<\/em> is the first book to consider company-states from a global and comparative perspective, and to explore the systemic implications of this important and peculiar form of expansionism.&#8221;\u2014Sven Beckert, author of <em>Empire of Cotton: A Global History<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This book is a superb addition to the literature on the interaction of the West and the rest of the globe after the maritime revolution in Europe during the late fifteenth century.&#8221;\u2014Hendrik Spruyt, Northwestern University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This accomplished and valuable book introduces the neglected subject of company-states to the literature on the formation of the global political order. With clear and engaging writing, Phillips and Sharman make an important case for the impact of company-states and advance the history of global international relations and the chartered companies.&#8221;\u2014Emily Erikson, Yale University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This fascinating book presents a bold and powerful argument, sustains a clear narrative, and deftly weaves together theory and history. Its comparative element, which brings together the activities of company-states in Asia, the Americas, and Africa, is a major strength, as is its assessment of why some company-states succeeded and others failed.<em> Outsourcing Empire<\/em> is a signal contribution to debates in historical international relations.&#8221;\u2014George Lawson, London School of Economics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691203515\/outsourcing-empire\">https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691203515\/outsourcing-empire<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Empire.jpg?fit=331%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5257,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=5257","url_meta":{"origin":27146,"position":0},"title":"The Prospect of Global History","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"13. srpnja 2017.","format":false,"excerpt":"Nakon knjige Sebastiana Conrada \u201cWhat is global history?\u201d (2016) upu\u0107ujemo i na zbornik \u201cThe Prospect of Global History\u201d (2016). \u00a0 \u00a0 --- \u00a0 \u00a0 The Prospect of Global History \u00a0 \u00a0 Edited by James Belich, John Darwin, Margret Frenz, and Chris Wickham \u00a0 \u00a0 Oxford University Press, 2016. \u00a0 \u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"U &quot;Knjige&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Knjige","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=8"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-prospect-Global.jpg?fit=365%2C550&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":54767,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54767","url_meta":{"origin":27146,"position":1},"title":"Philipp Ther: The Sound of Habsburg \/ Der Klang der Monarchie. 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