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The Corporate Commonwealth: Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516-1651
Henry S. Turner
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
The Corporate Commonwealth traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important insights into our own definitions of fiction, politics, and value.
Henry S. Turner uses the resources of economic and political history, literary analysis, and political philosophy to demonstrate how a number of English institutions with corporate associations—including universities, guilds, towns and cities, and religious groups—were gradually narrowed to the commercial, for-profit corporation we know today, and how the joint-stock corporation, in turn, became both a template for the modern ... Read more
The Corporate Commonwealth traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important insights into our own definitions of fiction, politics, and value.
Henry S. Turner uses the resources of economic and political history, literary analysis, and political philosophy to demonstrate how a number of English institutions with corporate associations—including universities, guilds, towns and cities, and religious groups—were gradually narrowed to the commercial, for-profit corporation we know today, and how the joint-stock corporation, in turn, became both a template for the modern ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226363356
SKU
V9780226363356
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