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

by 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0312616112

ISBN13:9780312616113

Release Date:December 2010

Publisher:Thomas Dunne Books

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.2" x 9.4"

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