Outsourcing Empire
Phillips, Andrew / Sharman, J. C.![Outsourcing Empire](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/377/37747744/CHSBZCOP0337747744.jpg)
How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global order From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states--not sovereign states--drove European expansion, building the world's firs...