Merchant Kings When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900

Name: Merchant Kings When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900
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ISBN: 9780312616113

ISBN-10: 0312616112

ISBN-13: 9780312616113

Edition: 2010

Authors: Stephen R. Bown

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Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating their subjects as employees, customers, or competitors. The leaders of these trading enterprises exercised virtually unaccountable, dictatorial political power over millions of people. The merchant kings of the Age of Heroic Commerce were a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life men who, for a couple hundred years,…

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List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 12/7/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.60" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

<p class="biography" <b Stephen Bown</b is the author of the critically acclaimed <i Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail</i , which was selected as a <i Globe and Mail </i Top 100 Book of 2004.</p



Introduction: The Age of Heroic Commerce



First Among Equals


The Dutch East India Company




Divided Loyalties


The Dutch West India Company




Companies at War


The English East India Company




The Lord of Alaska


The Russian American Company




Empire of the Beaver


The Hudson's Bay Company




Diamonds and Deceit


The British South Africa Company



Epilogue: When Companies Ruled the World


Sources


Selected Bibliography


Timeline for the Age of Heroic Commerce


Acknowledgements


Index