Название: Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900
Автор: Stephen R. Bown
Издательство: Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN: 0312616112
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 336
Размер: 5,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.