Merchant kings
Subtitle: corporate governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815-1870
By: Albert Schrauwers
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781800730519
Subjects: Corporatization; History; Dutch Corporations; Colonial companies; Privatisation partielle; Histoire; Sociétés néerlandaises; Aspect politique; Compagnies de colonisation; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Contents; title: Illustrations; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: Corporate Governmentality; title: Part I; title: State Formation in the Greater Netherlands; title: Chapter 1; title: Aristocratic Restoration in Nineteenth-Century "Greater Netherlands"; title: Part II; title: Corporate Governmentality in the Realm of the Merchant King; title: Chapter 2; title: Policing the Pauper in the Realm of the Merchant King; title: Chapter 3; title: The Cultivation System; title: Chapter 4; title: Manufacturing Commodity Chains: The NHM and Cotton; title: Chapter 5; title: "Sweetening the Pot": Rule by Experts in the Sugar Industry; title: Chapter 6; title: Weaving an Empire: G. & H. Salomonson and the "Social Question"; title: Part III; title: The Credit Mobilier and Corporate Assemblage; title: Chapter 7; title: Political Economy, the "Self-Regulating Market," and "Economic Governance"; title: Chapter 8; title: The Credit Mobilier: Constructing an Economic Sovereignty; title: Chapter 9; title: The Crédit Mobilier and the Railways; title: Conclusion: Assemblage, Corporatization, and the Government of the Economy; title: References; title: Index