English Chartered Trading Companies, 1688-1763. Guns, money and lawyers
Details:
- Author(s) Wagner, Mike
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2018
- Pages 254pp; illus
- Publisher Routledge
- Place Published Abingdon
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly work. Deals especially with the East India Co, the Royal African Co, the Hudson's Bay Co, the Levant Co and the Russia Co in order to provide a 'collective' view of chartered companies and to fill gaps in existing knowledge in particular re 'interconnections between international rivalry, the financial operations of the companies, and politics'. Chapters include: 'Guns - rivalry and the pressure to innovate; 'Money - the companies as financial innovators'; 'Lawyers - the political verdict'