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100 1  Bown, Stephen R. 
245 10 Merchant kings :|bwhen companies ruled the world, 1600-
       1900. 
250    Unabridged. 
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511 1  Read by Malcolm Hillgartner. 
520    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.
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Trading companies|xHistory|y17th century. 
650  0 Trading companies|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Trading companies|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Colonial companies|xHistory. 
650  0 Trading companies|xHistory. 
650  0 International business enterprises|xHistory. 
650  0 Merchants|zEurope|vBiography. 
651  0 Europe|xCommerce|xHistory. 
700 1  Hillgartner, Malcolm. 
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