Merchant Kings : When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900 Product Form:Paperback / softback a series of disasters is

a series of disasters is taking a heavy toll

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justice and the redemptive powers of imagination from an internationally acclaimed author

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Merchant Kings : When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900 Product Form:Paperback / softback a series of disasters isDescription 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