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The Dutch East India Company: The History of the Worlds First Multinational Corporation Charles River Editors Paperback
317 Sk
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire Dalrymple William
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Company and the Shogun (Adam Clulow)(Brožovaná)Focuses on the Dutch East India Company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty. |
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36,97 € |
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Honourable CompanyDuring 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 ther... |
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Samuel Fallours: Tropical Fishes of the East Indies - Theodore W. PietschThis is a stunning achievement in zoological illustration. Samuel Fallours began as a common soldier in the service of the Dutch East India Company, though later, between 1706 and 1712, held the title of Associate Curate, entrusted with consoling the sick of Ambon. By 1703, his artistic abilities ha... |
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century IndiaThis compelling history of Britain's rule over India relates the true story of James Kirkpatrick, who converted to Islam and spied on the East India Company in the midst of an affair with the great-niece of the region's prime minister. Photos. |
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The History of the British Empire in India (George Robert Gleig)(Pevná)This book provides a detailed history of the British Empire in India, from the earliest days of the East India Company to the late 19th century. Thornton explores the political and economic impact of British colonialism on India, as well as its cultural legacy.This work has been selected by scholars... |
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32,59 € |
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India: A HistoryThe most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India - from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent's social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East. India's history begins with ... |
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Honourable Company (John Keay)(Brožovaná)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 ther... |
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Six Battles for India (George Bruce)(Brožovaná)George Bruce's remarkable book uncovers the history of the two Anglo-Sikh Wars that erupted in India in the 1840s. Perfect for fans of William Dalrymple, Lawrence James and Richard Holmes.By the end of the nineteenth century India was described as the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, but ho... |
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12,45 € |
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Passage to India - Matthew Hervey 13 Mallinson AllanPaperback / softbackIt is 1831, riots and rebellions are widespread . Somervile has persuaded the Court of Directors of the East India Company to approve an increase in the Madras military establishment. The Rajah is in |
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century IndiaThis compelling history of Britain's rule over India relates the true story of James Kirkpatrick, who converted to Islam and spied on the East India Company in the midst of an affair with the great-niece of the region's prime minister. Photos. |
22,87 € |
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City of Stolen Magic - Nazneen Ahmed PathakIndia, 1855. The British rule, and all across the country, Indian magic is being stamped out. More terrifying still, people born with magic are being snatched from their homes. Rumour is that they are being taken across the sea - to England - by the all-powerful, sinister Company. When Chompa's ho... |
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Hound of the Baskervilles, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)(Pevná)This collection features the world's most famous detective in his most classic adventures. We begin with A Study in Scarlet, the novel that introduces the most famous characters in literature. Then, in The Sign of Four we delve into the East India Company and a pact between four convicts. Finally, i... |
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17,41 € |
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River Gunboats: An Illustrated EncyclopediaThe first recorded engagement by a steam-powered warship took place on a river, when in 1824 the Honorable East India Company's gunboat Diana went into action on the Irrawaddy in Burma. In the 150 years that followed, river gunboats played a signifi |
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Flood of FireThe thrilling climax to the Ibis trilogy that began with the phenomenal Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies. It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government decl... |
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Dope, Inc (Executive Intelligence Review)(Brožovaná)The Opium Wars of 1840-1860 were dark chapters of history. Britain went to war to force China to import thousands of tons of opium, to cripple and impoverish that nation. The Opium Wars never really ended. The U.S., like China, was too great for the London money lords to occupy by force. One way Ame... |
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21,11 € |
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Vegan Travel HandbookWhether you've been vegan for years or are travelling as one for the first time, The Vegan Travel Handbook will help you discover, plan and book a huge range of vegan-friendly adventures around the globe. Get essential advice and expert tips on everything from where to go when and the best vegan res... |
16,95 € |
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Corporation That Changed the World (Nick Robins)(Brožovaná)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 ... |
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17,12 € |
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Koh i Noor - William DalrympleThe first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world. On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old maharaja of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great fort in Lahore. There, in a publi... |
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White MughalsFrom the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted 'Return of a King', the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyder... |
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Miss Clara and the Celebrity Beast in Art, 1500-1860This book tells the fascinating story of the rhinoceros Miss Clara, the most famousanimal of the eighteenth century. It accompanies the fi rst ever major loan exhibitiondevoted to Clara and celebrity pachyderms in the UK and will off er a signifi cantcontribution to scholarship on the subject. The l... |
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