||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent insight to six giants of history|By Peter Gregoire|A very lively, well-balanced treatment of six men who spanned an age where commerce and conquest intersected in the guise of chartered monopoly companies. Jan Peterszoon Coen of the Dutch East India Company, Pieter Stuyvesant of the Dutch West India Company, Robert Clive of the East India Company Alexandr Baranov of|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Bown (A Most Damnable Invention) has produced a magnificent description of the six great companies, and their leaders, that dominated the "Heroic Age of Commerce." Bown demonstrates how the corporations served as stalking horse
Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world
It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating their subjects as employees, customers, or competitors. The leaders of these trading...
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