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How Taiwan became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century /

Review Date:

28 Feb 2010

In this book, Tonio Andrade tells the story of a wild and uncultivated island originally inhabited by aboriginal hunters and traders.

The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India / Philip J. Stern

Review Date:

31 May 2012

Despite the flurry of works over the past 20 years or so which have explored the course and consequences of colonial rule in India, and increasingly the impact that such rule had upon British society, the period before the Battle of Plassey has remained for the most part insulated from questions about the ideologies and operations of territorial governance.