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Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900 by Stephen R. Bown
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Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900 Stephen R. Bown ebook
Language: English
Page: 336
Format: epub
ISBN: 0312616112, 9780312616113
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. Monopolies, such as England’s storied East India Company, have inspired many popular histories and biographies. Bown synthesizes this material into a lively gallery of six men who built up their firms and enriched themselves. Motivations and character are in the forefront of Bown’s portraits, whose subjects viewed their employment as their main chance for ascending to status and wealth, manifesting traits of determination and ruthlessness along the way that posterity looked upon askance, to put it mildly. Take Cecil Rhodes, the racial-supremacist empire builder who organized a company to dispossess Africans from what is today Zimbabwe and Zambia. Bown compares Rhodes to Jan Coen, who in the early 1600s pitilessly monopolized the East Indies spice trade on behalf of the Netherlands and his company, the VOC, and counts Robert Clive in 1700s India as a comparable buccaneer of self-interest and imperial expansion. Additionally profiling Pieter Stuyvesant in New York, Aleksandr Baranov in Alaska, and George Simpson of the Hudson’s Bay Company, Bown ably deploys biography to present the successes, costs, and legacies of an era’s commingling of private money and state sovereignty. --Gilbert Taylor MORE EBOOKS:
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