The Corporate CommonwealthAuthor :
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Published : Friday 17 June 2016
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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.A A A A 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 associationsâ?"including universities, guilds, towns and cities, and religious groupsâ?"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 corporationâ?Ts peculiar character as both an institution and a person, The Corporate Commonwealth uses the past to suggest ways in which todayâ?Ts corporations might be refashioned into a source of progressive and collective public action.
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