The Honourable Company - A history of the English East Indai Company
Author(s): John Keay
During 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 there would have been no British India and no British Empire.
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John Keay is a writer, broadcaster and historian whose books include `Into India', `India Discovered', `When Men and Mountains Meet', `Highland Drove', `The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company', `The Great Arc', `China: A History' and (with his wife, Julia Keay) the `Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland'. He has travelled extensively in India and the Far East, and specialised in Asian history and current affairs.
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins
- : HarperCollins
- : 0.345
- : 01 October 1993
- : 198mm X 129mm X 30mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : John Keay
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 954.029
- : xxii, 475
