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Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
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.
Established by Royal Charter in 1600, the East India Company through...