The Honourable Company A History Of The English East Indai Company

Author: John Keay

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Price : $15.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780006380726
Publisher : HarperCollins
Imprint : HarperCollins
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Weight (g) : 0.345
Publication date : 01 October 1993
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 30mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 954.029
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During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe". As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there would have been no British India and no British Empire.

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John Keay is a writer, broadcaster and historian whose books include `Into India', `India Discovered', `When Men and Mountains Meet', `Highland Drove', `The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company', `The Great Arc', `China: A History' and (with his wife, Julia Keay) the `Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland'. He has travelled extensively in India and the Far East, and specialised in Asian history and current affairs.

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