The Company-State Model and the societates publicanorum

An interstitial phase in the development of the early modern state was marked by the emergence of unusual very large private companies that were vicariously doing important work for the state in distant overseas lands. The model of the company-state that has been developed to explain the role, expan...

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Published inHistoria : Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte Vol. 71; no. 1; pp. 78 - 127
Main Author Shaw, Brent D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Stuttgart Franz Steiner Verlag 15.03.2022
Subjects
19th century
company-state
corporations
corpus
government contracts
HISTORIA 2022, 78
Imperialism
Nation states
Politics
publicani
societas
war financing
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Summary:An interstitial phase in the development of the early modern state was marked by the emergence of unusual very large private companies that were vicariously doing important work for the state in distant overseas lands. The model of the company-state that has been developed to explain the role, expansion, and decline of these special private corporate enterprises should be useful for historians of Rome. The comparison might assist in a better understanding of the place of the large societates publicanorum in the late Republic - that is, what the trajectory of their growth and recession can tell us about the transition from Republic to Principate.
ISSN:0018-2311
2365-3108
DOI:10.25162/HISTORIA-2022-0004