Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900 by Stephen R. Bown

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

Stephen R. Bown

314 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction business economics history informative slow-paced
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Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern worldIt was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and hu...

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