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Merchant Kings

When Companies Ruled the World, 1600–1900

Merchant Kings( )
Author: Bown, Stephen R.
ISBN:978-1-55365-649-4
Publication Date:Jan 2009
Publisher:D&M Publishers Incorporated
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $34.95
Book Description:

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...
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Pages:256



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