| Description |
1 online resource (338 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Contents |
List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Corporation as Common Constitution; 2. The Political Economy of Sir Thomas Smith; 3. Richard Hooker's Corporate Christians; 4. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Corporation; 5. Dekker and Company; 6. Shakespeare's Thing of Nothing; 7. Francis Bacon's Political Ecology; 8. Leviathan, Incorporated; Coda: Universitas, 1216-2016; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 state and a political force that the state could no longer contain. Through innovative readings of works by Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes, among others, Turner tracks the corporation from the courts to the stage, from commonwealth to colony, and from the object of utopian fiction to the subject of tragic violence. A provocative look at the corporation's peculiar character as both an institution and a person, The Corporate Commonwealth uses the past to suggest ways in which today's corporations might be refashioned into a source of progressive and collective public action. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Corporations -- Political aspects -- England.
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Corporations -- Political aspects. |
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England. |
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Corporations. |
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Corporations -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Subject |
Corporations -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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State, The -- Philosophy.
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State, The -- Philosophy. |
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History. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. |
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1500-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Turner, Henry S. Corporate Commonwealth : Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516-1651. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2016 9780226363356 |
| ISBN |
022636349X |
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9780226363493 (electronic book) |
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