{"id":177,"date":"2017-10-08T17:08:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T17:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2017-10-08T18:29:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T18:29:28","slug":"a-state-in-disguise-of-a-merchant-the-english-east-india-company-as-a-strategic-action-field-ca-1763-1834","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/blog\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA State In Disguise of a Merchant?\u201d The English East India Company as a Strategic Action Field, ca. 1763-1834 <strong>(2015)<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/StateIn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-55 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/StateIn-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/em>(2015), \u201cA State in Disguise of a Merchant?\u201d The English East India Company as a Strategic Action Field, ca. 1763\u20131834, in\u00a0Emily Erikson (ed.)\u00a0<em>Chartering Capitalism: Organizing Markets, States, and Publics<\/em> (Political Power and Social Theory, Volume 29), pp. 257 &#8211; 285 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emeraldinsight.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1108\/S0198-871920150000029011\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong>\u00a0This paper considers the East India Company\u2019s emergence as a territorial power from the 1760s until the revocation of most of its commercial functions in 1834. While this period has been a key episode for historians<br \/>\nof the British Empire and of South Asia, social scientists have struggled with the Company\u2019s ambiguous nature. In this paper, I propose that a profitable way to grasp the Company\u2019s transformation is to consider it as a global strategic action field. This perspective clarifies two key processes in the Company\u2019s transition: the enlargement of its territorial possessions;<br \/>\nand the increased exposure of its patrimonial network to intervention from British metropolitan politics. To further suggest the utility of this analytic perspective, I synthesize evidence from various sources, including data concerning the East India Court of Directors and the\u00a0career histories of Company servants in two of its key administrative regions, Bengal and Madras, during this period of transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(2015), \u201cA State in Disguise of a Merchant?\u201d The English East India Company as a Strategic Action Field, ca. 1763\u20131834, in\u00a0Emily Erikson (ed.)\u00a0Chartering Capitalism: Organizing Markets, States, and Publics (Political Power and Social Theory, Volume 29), pp. 257 &#8211; 285 [Link] Abstract:\u00a0This paper considers the East India Company\u2019s emergence as a territorial power from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peer-reviewed-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"http:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickwilsonsoc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}