Honourable Company

Name: Honourable Company
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ISBN: 9780006380726

ISBN-10: 0006380727

ISBN-13: 9780006380726

Edition: 1991

Authors: John Keay

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During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe". As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there would have been no British India and no British Empire. In a tapestry ranging from Southern Africa to north-west America, and from the reign of Elizabeth I to that of Victoria, bizarre locations and roguish personality abound. From Bombay to Singapore and Hong Kong the political geography of today is, in some respects, the result of the Company. This book looks at the history of the East India…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/11/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.06" wide x 7.81" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

John Keay's recent books includeSowing the Wind: the Mismanagement of the Middle East 1900-1960andLast Post: The End of Empire in the Far East.