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The Corporation That Changed the World

by Nick Robins
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This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence.

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.

This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance and regulation drove its spectacular rise and fall. This story provides vital lessons on both the role of corporations in world history and the steps required to make global business accountable today.
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Publisher: Pluto Press Edition: 2

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  • Release date: October 5, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9781849646925
  • File size: 4751 KB
  • Release date: October 5, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9781849646925
  • File size: 4751 KB
  • Release date: October 5, 2012

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History Nonfiction

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English

This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence.

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.

This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance and regulation drove its spectacular rise and fall. This story provides vital lessons on both the role of corporations in world history and the steps required to make global business accountable today.
Expand title description text
History Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Pluto Press
    Edition:
    2

    Kindle Book
    Release date: October 5, 2012

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781849646925
    File size: 4751 KB
    Release date: October 5, 2012

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781849646925
    File size: 4751 KB
    Release date: October 5, 2012

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English