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

By Stephen R. Bown

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553653424
• ISBN13: 9781553653424
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"