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The Dutch East India Company: The History of the Worlds First Multinational Corporation Charles River Editors Paperback
361 Sk
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire Dalrymple William
775 Sk
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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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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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39,31 € |
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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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The Bedlam Stacks (Natasha Pulley)(Brožovaná)An Indie Next PickNow in paperback, Natasha Pulley's "witty, entrancing novel . . . burnishes her reputation as a gifted storyteller" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick |
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14,10 € |
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For All the Tea in China"If ever there was a book to read in the company of a nice cuppa, this is it." -"The Washington Post" In the dramatic story of one of the greatest acts of corporate espionage ever committed, Sarah Rose recounts the fascinating, unlikely circumstances surrounding a turning point in economic history. ... |
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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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Miss Clara and the Celebrity Beast in Art, 1500-1860 (Samuel Shaw,Robert Wenley)(Brožovaná)This 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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25,20 € |
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British Napoleonic Artillery 1793 - 1815 - Chris HenryThis title is the first of two volumes examining the artillery equipment of the British forces during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, along with Wellington's campaigns in India. Throughout this period the British Army used both foot and horse artillery, generally using either the nine pounder... |
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Enemy of All MankindFrom The New York Times-bestselling author of The Ghost Map and Extra Life, the story of a pirate who changed the world Henry Every was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular-and wildly inaccurate-reports of his nefarious adventures. The British governmen... |
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Enemy of All Mankind (Steven Johnson)Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular - and wildly inaccurate - reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Avery's most... |
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HMS SurpriseThird in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming... |
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Savage Beasts - Rani Selvarajah, One More ChapterBengal is on the brink of war. The East India Company, led by the fearsome Sir Peter Chilcott, are advancing and nobody is safe. Meena, the Nawab’s neglected and abused daughter, finds herself falling under the spell of James Chilcott, nephew of Sir Peter, who claims he wants to betray the company..... |
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The Terrible Old ManHe talks to bottles, collects strange stones and only "few know his real name". If the title of the short story is not enough, these facts about 'The Terrible Old Man' make it clear that he is not really approachable.But he is rumoured to have made a fortune while captaining East India Company clipp... |
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Flood of Fire (Amitav Ghosh)(Brožovaná)The 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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12,90 € |
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AnarchyIn August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an internati... |
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Murder at the Mushaira - Raza Mir3 may 1857. India stands on the brink of war. Everywhere in its cities, towns, and villages, rebels and revolutionaries are massing to overthrow the ruthless and corrupt British East India Company which has taken over the country andaid it to waste. In Delhi, The capital, even as the plot to get rid... |
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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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16,70 € |
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City of Stolen MagicIndia, 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 home... |
10,95 € |
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Capitalism and Its Critics: A History (Pevná)A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics. At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, and inequality are raising fundamental questions about the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics p... |
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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... |
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