[PDF.27qy] Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900

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

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 | #119169 in Books |  2010-12-07 |  2010-12-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.72 x1.14 x6.21l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Enjoyable Casual History|By Peter Beacom|Stephen Brown profiles the careers of six leaders of quasi-governmental companies across the age of discovery. The work is informative and a well written general overview of six companies and their most potent leaders. I was particularly pleased to learn about the Russian American Company, of which I was previously ignorant. Something ab|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Bown (A Most Damnable Invention) has produced a magnificent description of the six great companies, and their leaders, that dominated the "Heroic Age of Commerce." Bown demonstrates how the corporations served as stalking horses

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 ...

You easily download any file type for your device.Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900   |  Stephen R. Bown. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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