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Author: Antony Wild
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780004127750
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A guide to spices and their uses features recipes, little-known facts, exotic tales, and a look at the history of the spice trade
Author: Jaap R. Bruijn
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Overzicht van de activiteiten van de 7 Europese handelscompagnieën die zich bezig hielden met de vaart op Azië in de 16e, 17e, en 18e eeuw.
Author: Nick Robins
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2012-10-30
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780745331966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. The Corporation That Changed the World is the first book to reveal the Company's enduring legacy as a corporation. This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance, and regulation drove its spectacular rise and fall. For decades, the Company was simply too big to fail, and stock market bubbles, famines, drug-running, and even duels between rival executives are to be found in this new account. For Robins, the Company's story provides vital lessons on both the role of corporations in world history and the steps required to make global business accountable today.
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-11-12
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 1526634015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India ... A book of beauty' – Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
Author: Ramkrishna Mukherjee
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 0853453152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This remarkable study of the British East India Company offers great insight into the formation of the Company, its impact on both England and India, and the social forces that shaped its development. With great detail and rich documentation, Ramkrishna Mukherjee examines a period of 258 years, beginning immediately before the Company's birth and ending with its collapse in 1858. This is an engrossing work that reveals much about what is no doubt one of the most important institutions in the history of British colonialism and of world capitalism generally.
Author: Antony Wild
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781585740598
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The East India Company haunts the collective psyche of the modern world. Heady images of sailing ships laden with spices, tea, and porcelain on the high seas jostle with darker images of opium, oppression, and greed. In form, like a modern multinational; in action, like an expansionist nation state -- the East India Company was a uniquely British creation which took on the world.
Author: John Keay
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2010-07-08
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 000739554X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the English East India company.
Author: Ian Barrow
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2017-02-14
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1624665985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China’s nineteenth-century addiction. In India it expanded from a few small coastal settlements to govern territories that far exceeded the British Isles in extent and population. It minted coins in its name, established law courts and prisons, and prosecuted wars with one of the world’s largest armies. Over time, the Company developed a pronounced and aggressive colonialism that laid the foundation for Britain’s Eastern empire. A study of the Company, therefore, is a study of the rise of the modern world. In clear, engaging prose, Ian Barrow sets the rise and fall of the Company into political, economic, and cultural contexts and explains how and why the Company was transformed from a maritime trading entity into a territorial colonial state. Excerpts from eighteen primary documents illustrate the main themes and ideas discussed in the text. Maps, illustrations, a glossary, and a chronology are also included.
Author: Jack Turner
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-12-10
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0307491226
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era—from ancient times through the Renaissance—when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood. Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key. For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth and power, and the wish to possess them drove explorers to circumnavigate the globe—and even to savagery. Following spices across continents and through literature and mythology, Spice is a beguiling narrative about the surprisingly vast influence spices have had on human desire. Includes eight pages of color photographs. One of the Best Books of the Year: Discover Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle
