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The Dutch East India Company: The History of the Worlds First Multinational Corporation Charles River Editors Paperback
326 Sk
The Dutch East India Company: The History of the Worlds First Multinational Corporation Charles River Editors Paperback
302 Sk
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World's First Stock Exchange (Lodewijk Petram)(Pevná)The launch of the Dutch East India Company in 1602 initiated Amsterdam's transformation from a regional market town into a dominant financial center. The Company introduced easily transferable shares, and within days buyers had begun to trade them. Soon the public was engaging in a variety of comple... |
21,01 € |
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The British Army of George II, 1727-1760Gabriele Esposito provides a detailed overview of the history, organization and uniforms of the British military forces during the long reign of George II (1727-1760). Perhaps best known for the Jacobite Rebellion, this period saw the British military forces greatly expanded and involved in two majo... |
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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... |
13,16 € |
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AlexandriaFor centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, deserter, traveller, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist, spy, and eventually one of the most r... |
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Beyond the Conspiracy (John Coleman)(Brožovaná)It has been commented on many times during the course of history that the average person in most countries has little or no time to spare to think beyond making a living, raising a family and holding down a job to make these objectives possible. This leaves little or no time to attend to politics or... |
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The Whole Picture"Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times 'A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured... |
21,95 € |
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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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Epic Hikes Of The World 1With stories of 50 incredible hiking routes in 30 countries, from New Zealand to Peru, plus a further 150 suggestions, Lonely Planet’s Epic Hikes of the World will inspire a lifetime of adventure on foot. From one-day jaunts and urban trails to month-long thru-hikes, cultural rambles and mountain ex... |
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Pirates and Their FlagsI'll admit it. I am obsessed with pirate flags. I find them fascinating, the different designs and symbols, how they evolved, and how some of them have become widely and instantly recognisable in many ways. I have a wardrobe full of t-shirts with different pirate flags printed on them. If like me yo... |
15,50 € |
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Enemy of All MankindThoroughly engrossing . . . a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags. The Wall Street Journal From 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... |
16,91 € |
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Koh-I-NoorThe 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 Maharajah of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great Fort in Lahore. There, in a publ... |
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Savage Beasts - Rani Selvarajah, One More Chapter'A beautiful and unique retelling of Medea. I loved it!' Sunday Times bestselling author Sophie Irwin 'Absorbing and thoughtful...full of page-turning drama and vibrantly drawn characters. Bold and illuminating' Claire Heywood, author of Daughters of Sparta A propulsive retelling inspired by the Gre... |
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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... |
21,27 € |
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Fortune's SoldierPower, ambition, corruption - the British East India Company risesAn old empire at war with itself1744, Scotland. Young Nicholas Ballantyne's life is turned upside down when his uncle, caught up in events far beyond his control, announces that, for his own safety, Nicholas is to set sail for India i... |
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Hound of the Baskervilles, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of FourThis 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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Mutiny - Julian RathboneFor its British population, the India that swelters in the late spring of 1857 is a place of amateur theatricals, horseracing and flirtations under the aegis of the omnipotent East India company. But a brutal awakening lies in store for the complacent British: one May night, after thirty years of ab... |
11,10 € |
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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... |
21,27 € |
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Retreat from Kabul (George Bruce)(Brožovaná)A fascinating account of one of the most ludicrously mismanaged expeditions in the history of warfare. Ideal for readers of Shashi Tharoor, Adam Hochschild and William Dalrymple.Afghanistan, 1839.The British East India Company dominated the Indian subcontinent, yet they were not secure in their posi... |
11,97 € |
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Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (James Shapiro)(Brožovaná)In 1599, an epochal year for Shakespeare and England, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays while Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, and gambled on a fledgling East India Company. Shapiro brings together the news and the intrig... |
14,33 € |
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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... |
13,98 € |
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