The corporation that changed the world : how the East India Company shaped the modern multinational /
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Established in 1600, its trading empire encircled the globe, creating a lifestyle revolution. The Company's practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today. This book explores the Company's enduring...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London : New York :
Pluto Press ; Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Summary: | The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Established in 1600, its trading empire encircled the globe, creating a lifestyle revolution. The Company's practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today. This book explores the Company's enduring global legacy. It investigates how the Company's spectacular rise and fall were driven by the four forces of finance, technology, monopoly and regulation. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | "Select bibliography": pages 245-250. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780745331966 0745331963 9780745331959 0745331955 |