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The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
Nick Robins
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This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence.
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Company’s practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today.
This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance and regulation drove its spectacular ... Read more
This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence.
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Company’s practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today.
This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance and regulation drove its spectacular ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745331966
SKU
V9780745331966
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About Nick Robins
Nick Robins has more than 20 years experience in the policy and practical realities of corporate accountability. A historian by training, he currently works on sustainable and responsible investment in London. He is the author of The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational (Pluto, 2012), and has written on the East India ... Read more
Reviews for The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
'A powerful analysis of the rise and fall of the British East India Company, a private company that conquered a subcontinent and subjugated an entire people'
Huw Bowen, Professor of Imperial and Maritime History, Swansea University 'Elegantly written and sharply argued, Nick Robins’ gripping account of the rise and fall of the English East India Company brings to life ... Read more
Huw Bowen, Professor of Imperial and Maritime History, Swansea University 'Elegantly written and sharply argued, Nick Robins’ gripping account of the rise and fall of the English East India Company brings to life ... Read more