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The corporation that changed the world : how the East India Company shaped the modern multinational

Robins, Nick
London : Pluto Press ; 2012

The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Established in 1600, its trading empire encircled the globe, creating a lifestyle revolution. The Company's practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today. This book explores the Company's enduring global legacy. It investigates how the Company's spectacular rise and fall were driven by the four forces of finance, technology, monopoly and regulation

Bibliographic Information


Format: Book
Author: Robins, Nick
Subject: East India Company
International business enterprises
International trade
Publication Year:2012
Language:English
Published:London : Pluto Press ; 2012
ISBN:9780745331959
0745331955
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-250) and index
Chronology -- The hidden wound -- The imperious company -- Out of the shadows -- The Bengal Revolution -- The Great East Indian crash -- Regulating the company -- Justice will be done -- The toxic exchange -- A skulking power -- Unfinished business -- Epilogue
Course: HIST220

Availability at HKSYU Library


Location Call number Status
English Book (5/F) 954.031 ROB 2012 Available