Introduction: New Forms of Organization and the Coordination of Political and Commercial Actors. The Ideology of the Imperial Corporation: “Informal” Empire Revisited. Principal Agent Relations and the Decline of the Royal African Company. Raisins d’Etat: Trade, Politics, and Diplomacy in the History of the Levant Company. Colonial Institutions and Trade Patterns. Private Trade and Monopoly Structures: The East India Companies and the Commodity Trade to Europe in the Eighteenth Century. A Closed Elite? Bristol’s Society of Merchant Venturers and the Abolition of Slave Trading. Own, Rent, or Rent-Seek?: Vertical Integration in Historical Chartered Monopolies. Bottlenecks and East Indies Companies: Modeling the Geography of Agency in Mercantilist Enterprises. An Ancient Scheme: The Mississippi Company, Machiavelli, and the Casa di San Giorgio (1407–1720). “A State in Disguise of a Merchant?” The English East India Company as a Strategic Action Field, ca. 1763–1834. Scientists as Free Riders: Natural Resource Exploration and New Product Discovery in the Dutch East India Company. Copyright page. Student Editorial Board. Editorial Statement. Series editor’s introduction. Chartering Capitalism: Organizing Markets, States, and Publics. List of Contributors. Political power and social theory. Chartering Capitalism: Organizing Markets, States, and Publics. Senior Editorial Board.