Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book on Tape
Book on TapeDownloadable Audiobook
Author Bown, Stephen R.

Title Merchant kings : when companies ruled the world, 1600-1900.

Publication Info. [United States] : Tantor Media, Incorporated, 2022.
Made available through hoopla.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon - Downloadable Materials  Hoopla E-Audiobook    Downloadable
Avon cardholders click here to access this title from Hoopla.
 Berlin - Downloadable Materials  Hoopla E-Audiobook    Downloadable
Berlin cardholders click here to access this title from Hoopla.
 Bloomfield - Downloadable Materials  Hoopla E-Audiobook    Downloadable
Bloomfield cardholders click here to access this title from Hoopla.
 Bristol - Downloadable Materials  Hoopla E-Audiobook    Downloadable
Bristol cardholders click here to access this title from Hoopla.
 Canton - Downloadable Materials  Hoopla E-Audiobook    Downloadable
Canton cardholders click here to access this title from Hoopla.
 Cromwell - Downloadable Materials  Hoopla E-Audiobook    Downloadable
Cromwell cardholders click here to access this title from Hoopla.
 East Windsor - Downloadable Materials  Hoopla E-Audiobook    Downloadable
East Windsor cardholders click here to access this title from Hoopla.
 Enfield - Downloadable Materials  Hoopla E-Audiobook    Downloadable
Enfield cardholders click here to access this title from Hoopla
 Granby - Downloadable Materials  Hoopla E-Audiobook    Downloadable
Granby cardholders click here to access this title from Hoopla
 Manchester - Downloadable Materials  Hoopla E-Audiobook    Downloadable
Manchester cardholders click here to access this title from Hoopla.

Edition Unabridged.
Description 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 52 min.)) : digital
digital digital recording rda
data file rda
Access Digital content provided by hoopla.
Cast Read by Malcolm Hillgartner.
Summary 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. The leaders of these trading enterprises exercised virtually unaccountable, dictatorial political power over millions of people. The merchant kings of the Age of Heroic Commerce were a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life men who, for a couple hundred years, expanded their far-flung commercial enterprises over a sizable portion of the world. They include Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the violent and autocratic pioneer of the Dutch East India Company; Peter Stuyvesant, the one-legged governor of the Dutch West India Company; Robert Clive, who rose from company clerk to become head of the British East India Company and one of the wealthiest men in Britain; Alexandr Baranov of the Russian American Company; Cecil Rhodes, founder of De Beers and Rhodesia; and George Simpson, the "Little Emperor" of the Hudson's Bay Company. Merchant Kings looks at the rise and fall of company rule in the centuries before colonialism. A blend of biography, corporate history, and colonial history, this book offers a new perspective on the enormous cultural, political, and social legacies, good and bad, of this first period of unfettered globalization.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Trading companies -- History -- 17th century.
Trading companies -- History -- 18th century.
Trading companies -- History -- 19th century.
Colonial companies -- History.
Trading companies -- History.
Europe -- Commerce -- History.
International business enterprises -- History.
Merchants -- Europe -- Biography.
Added Author Hillgartner, Malcolm.
Added Title hoopla (Digital media service)
ISBN 9781666186178 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
1666186171 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
Music No. MWT14695413
-->
Add a Review