[Merchant Kings 01] • Merchant Kings
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- Authors
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Tags
- history , non-fiction , biography , general , his037030 , bus077000 , business
- ISBN
- 9781553653424
- Date
- 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.18 MB
- Lang
- en
Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world, as told by **Steven Bown**, .Canada's Simon Winchester. (Globe and Mail).
Through the Age of Heroic Commerce, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life merchant kings ruled vast tracts of the globe and expanded their far-flung monopolies to generate revenue for their shareholders, feather their own nests and satisfy their vanity and curiosity. Their exploits changed the world during an age of unfettered globalization, mirroring a world we know today.
* **Merchant Kings** * looks at each ruling monopoly through its greatest merchant king and considers their stories together for the first time.