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The Honourable Company

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish Date: Oct 22nd, 1993
  • Pages: 496
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.80in - 4.90in - 1.50in - 0.85lb
  • EAN: 9780006380726
  • Categories: Asia - South - GeneralEurope - Great Britain - GeneralCorporate & Business History - General

About the Author

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.