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 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: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.4"