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The Company-State offers a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the century before its acquisition of territorial power. It argues the Company was no mere merchant, but a form of early modern, colonial state and sovereign that laid the foundations for the British Empire in India.
This catalogue provides a complete overview of the English East India Company's shipping from its formation in 1600 until it ceased to trade after the Charter Act of 1833. Arranged by ship name, it details over 4500 voyages to Asia performed by 1474 separate ships and gives the references for nearly 10,000 journals, logs and associated account books whihc survive in the company's archives at the British Library.