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The Company-State

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  • Author: [[Philip J. Stern]]
  • ASIN: B00AAUBPBS
  • Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AAUBPBS
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40 Early modern states and empires were not clearly defined structures but sets of de-centered processes, the product of the fuzzy tension among various legitimate rivals for power and sovereignty that defined early modern empire globally. — location: 4825 ^ref-39615

The “fit of absence of mind,” to borrow Seeley’s famous phrase, was neither that Britain accidentally backed into its Indian empire nor that eighteenth-century Britons did not notice it happening; it was that the foundations of that empire rested in the hard ideological work of the emerging modern state to forget that its roots lay in a very different form of body politic. — location: 4838 ^ref-48482