"Merchants." . . "POLITICAL SCIENCE International Relations Trade & Tariffs." . . "Multinational corporations History." . . "Merchants Biography Europe." . . "Außenhandelsmonopol." . . "Compagnies de colonisation Histoire." . . "Commerce." . . "1600-1900" . . "Wirtschaftsgeschichte." . . "Wirtschaftsgeschichte" . "Trading companies." . . "Trading companies History." . . "Monopoles Europe Histoire." . . "Geschichte 1600-1900." . . "Colonial companies." . . "Kolonialismus." . . "Kolonialismus" . "Commerce international Histoire." . . "West-Indische Compagnie." . . "Europa." . . "Außenhandelsgeschichte." . . "Außenhandelsgeschichte" . "Geschichte 1600-1700" . . "Monopolies Europe History." . . "British South Africa Company." . . "Monopol." . . "Monopol" . "East India Company (London)" . . . . "International trade." . . "International business enterprises History." . . "Welthandel." . . "Commerçants Europe Biographies." . . "1600 - 1899" . . "BUSINESS & ECONOMICS International General." . . "1600 - 1799" . . "Russisch-Amerikanische Kompanie." . . "HISTORY Expeditions & Discoveries." . . "Europe" . . "Europe." . "Handelskompanie." . . "Handelskompanie" . "BUSINESS & ECONOMICS International Marketing." . . "Macht." . . "Handelsgesellschaft." . . "Entreprises multinationales Histoire." . . "Trading companies History 17th century." . . "Geschichte." . . "BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Exports & Imports." . . "Handelscompagnieën." . . "International business enterprises." . . "Danske Asiatiske Kompagni." . . "Geschichte 1700-1800" . . "Welt." . . "Welt" . "Trading companies History 19th century." . . "Hudson's Bay Company." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY General." . . "Merchants Europe Biography." . . "Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world, as told by \"Canada's Simon Winchester\" (Globe and Mail). Through the Age of Heroic Commerce, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life merchant kings ruled vast tracts of the globe and expanded their far-flung monopolies to generate revenue for their shareholders, feather their own nests and satisfy their vanity and curiosity. Their exploits changed the world during an age of unfettered globalization, mirroring a world we know today. Merchant Kings lo." . . . . . . . . . "Merchant kings when companies ruled the world, 1600-1900"@en . "Merchant kings when companies ruled the world, 1600-1900" . . . . . . . "Merchant kings when companies ruled the world, 1600--1900"@en . "Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world, as told by \"Canada's Simon Winchester\" (Globe and Mail). Through the Age of Heroic Commerce, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life merchant kings ruled vast tracts of the globe and expanded their far-flung monopolies to generate revenue for their shareholders, feather their own nests and satisfy their vanity and curiosity. Their exploits changed the world during an age of unfettered globalization, mirroring a world we know today. Merchant Kings lo"@en . . "MERCHANT KINGS : when companies ruled the world, 1600-1900"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Merchant kings : when companies ruled the world, 1600-1900" . . . "Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world 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. They managed their territories as business interests, treating their subjects as employees, customers, or competitors. 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, whose narrow-minded approach lost Manhattan to the British; 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, who was chauffeured about his vast fur domain in a giant canoe, exhorting his voyageurs to paddle harder so he could set speed records. Merchant Kings looks at the rise and fall of company rule in the centuries before colonialism, when nations belatedly assumed responsibility for their commercial enterprises. A blend of biography, corporate history, and colonial history, this book offers a panoramic, new perspective on the enormous cultural, political, and social legacies, good and bad, of this first period of unfettered globalization."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Merchant Kings : when companies ruled the world 1600-1900" . . . . . . . . . . . . "Biography" . "History" . . "Biography"@en . "History"@en . . "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, whose narrow-minded approach lost Manhattan to the British; 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, who was chauffeured about his vast fur domain in a giant canoe, exhorting his voyageurs to paddle harder so he could set speed records. --from publisher description." . . . . . "Merchant Kings When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Merchant kings : when companies ruled the world, 1600 - 1900" . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . "Electronic books" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Traces the historically relevant contributions of six notorious merchant-adventurers who expanded their commercial enterprises to establish the world's first global monopolies." . . "Trading companies History 18th century." . . "Monopolies." . . "Colonial companies History." . . "Multinationales Unternehmen." . . "Multinationales Unternehmen" . "Monopoles Histoire." . . "Geschichte 1800-1900" . .