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The English Chartered Trading Companies, 1688-1763: Guns, Money and Lawyers

By Michael Wagner

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
ISBN
1138612804, 9781138612808
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3131689 bytes)
Series
Routledge Research in Early Modern History
Pages
236\255
Time added
2022-10-10 16:33:18

Description

This book provides a collective view of the five major English chartered trading companies which were active during the period 1688-1763: The East India Company, the Royal African Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, The Levant Company, and the Russia Company. Using both archival and secondary sources, this monograph fills in some of the knowledge gaps concerning the less well-studied companies, and examines the interconnections between international rivalry, the financial operations of the companies, and politics which have not featured prominently in the historiography. Cover Title Copyright Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface Maps Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Guns: Rivalry and the Pressure to Innovate 2 Money: The Companies as Financial Innovators 3 Lawyers: The Political Verdict Conclusion Index

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