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The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company

By John Keay

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins UK
Year
1993
ISBN
0006380727, 9780006380726
Google Books ID
sPQNAQAAMAAJ
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
665 kB (680762 bytes)
Pages
496\0
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe". As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world\'s trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there would have been no British India and no British Empire. In a tapestry ranging from Southern Africa to north-west America, and from the reign of Elizabeth I to that of Victoria, bizarre locations and roguish personality abound. From Bombay to Singapore and Hong Kong the political geography of today is, in some respects, the result of the Company. This book looks at the history of the East India Company.

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