The Anarchy The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
eBook - 2019
Finalist for the Cundill History PrizeONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR "Superb ... A vivid and richly detailed story ... worth reading by everyone." -The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the bestselling author of Return of a King, the story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country.In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army. The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to... be a conventional company and became something much more unusual: an international...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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- English
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| Adobe EPUB eBook | |
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| File Size | 99 GB |
| ISBN | 9781635574333 |
| Release Date | 9/10/2019 |
| Kindle Book | |
| ASIN | B07W952J1F |
| Release Date | 9/10/2019 |
| OverDrive Read eBook | |
| ISBN | 9781635574333 |
| Release Date | 9/10/2019 |
