Merchant Kings
byStephen R. Bown
Genres: History
Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world, as told by 'Canada's Simon Winchester (Globe and Mail). Through the Age of Heroic Commerce, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life merchant kings ruled vast tracts of the globe and expanded their far-flung monopolies to generate revenue for their shareholders, feather their own nests and satisfy their vanity and curiosity. Their exploits changed the world during an age of unfettered globalization, mirroring a world we know today. Merchant Kings looks at each ruling monopoly through its greatest merchant king and considers their stories together for the first time: Jan Pieterszoon Coen of the Dutch East India Company Pieter Stuyvesant of the Dutch West India Company Robert Clive of the English East India Company Alexandr Baranov of the Russian-American Company George Simpson of the Hudson's Bay Company Cecil John Rhodes of the British South Africa Company
Language
en
Format
eBook
ISBN
9781553656494
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