What roles did public and private power take in the creation of the British Empire? Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus welcome Dr. Philip J. Stern to discuss four centuries of corporate power fueling British colonialism and attempt to answer the deceptively simple question, “What is a corporation?”Everything 2 Complicated 4 History at 2c4hpod.comRelevant Links:

Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism - https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674988125

The English East India Company at the Height of Mughal Expansion: A Soldier’s Diary of the 1689 Siege of Bombay, with Related Documents - https://cmrs.trinity.duke.edu/books/english-east-india-company-height-mughal-expansion-soldiers-diary-1689-siege-bombay-related

The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-company-state-9780195393736?cc=us&lang=en&

British East India Company - https://www.britannica.com/money/topic/East-India-Company

Frederic William Maitland - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederic-William-Maitland

The Virginia Company - https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/virginia-company-of-london/

Newgate Prison - https://www.historic-uk.com/DestinationsUK/Newgate-Prison/

Royal Niger Company - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Royal-Niger-Company

Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan - https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/hobbess-leviathan

Philip J. Stern at Duke University - https://scholars.duke.edu/person/philip.stern

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