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Cargando... Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600–1900 (2009)por Stephen R. Bown
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Merchant Kings is a compilation of biographies of six individuals and overviews of their companies. The book is well researched, and well written, although can become dry and drag at points in the later parts of the book. Given the title of the book I expected more information about the companies themselves, although a good information about them the main focus is on the founders and operators of said companies. Would recommend Merchant Kings as book kept out for light reading taking each section as its own separate piece. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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. The leaders of these trading enterprises exercised virtually unaccountable, dictatorial political power over millions of people. The merchant kings of the Age of Heroic Commerce were a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life men who, for a couple hundred years, expanded their far-flung commercial enterprises over a sizable portion of the world. They include Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the violent and autocratic pioneer of the Dutch East India Company; Peter Stuyvesant, the one-legged governor of the Dutch West India Company; Robert Clive, who rose from company clerk to become head of the British East India Company and one of the wealthiest men in Britain; Alexandr Baranov of the Russian American Company; Cecil Rhodes, founder of De Beers and Rhodesia; and George Simpson, the "Little Emperor" of the Hudson's Bay Company. Merchant Kings looks at the rise and fall of company rule in the centuries before colonialism. A blend of biography, corporate history, and colonial history, this book offers a new perspective on the enormous cultural, political, and social legacies, good and bad, of this first period of unfettered globalization. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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