Merchant kings : when companies ruled the world, 1600-1900

Merchant kings : when companies ruled the world, 1600-1900 / Stephen R. Bown.

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 Dutc...

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Main Author: Bown, Stephen R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2009.
Subjects:
Colonial companies > History.
Trading companies > History.
International business enterprises > History.
Merchants > Europe > Biography.
Europe > Commerce > History.
Biography.
History.
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Call Number: HF481 .B76 2009
Status: Available

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