The Rule of Law against the Rule of Greed: Edmund Burke against the East India Company

At the end of the 18th century Bengal suddenly came under the rule of the East India Company. The former trading company had become the sovereign, first, of a country the size of France, and eventually of the whole Indian subcontinent. The Company was not controlled by...

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Main Author: Jakob Fortunat Stagl
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory 2012-01-01
Series:Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History
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Online Access:http://data.rg.mpg.de/rechtsgeschichte/rg20_104stagl.pdf