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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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Description for The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
Paperback. Expanded and revised edition of the highly praised history of the English East India Company. Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 photos, 2 figures, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; KCZ; KJVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
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
Publisher
Pluto Press
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
360g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745331959
SKU
V9780745331959
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99-50
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 brilliant, important contribution to an understanding of development and poverty'
Mari Marcel Thekaekara, New Internationalist 'Nick Robins' history of astonishing corporate greed, excess and abuse of power is brilliantly told, and perfectly timed'
Isabel Hilton, Editor of China Dialogue 'The East India Company might have been relegated to the dustbin of history, but Robins digs it out, ... Read more
Mari Marcel Thekaekara, New Internationalist 'Nick Robins' history of astonishing corporate greed, excess and abuse of power is brilliantly told, and perfectly timed'
Isabel Hilton, Editor of China Dialogue 'The East India Company might have been relegated to the dustbin of history, but Robins digs it out, ... Read more