The anarchy : the relentless rise of the East India Company

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THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER,DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India . A book of beauty' - Gerard DeGroot, The TimesIn August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power. … celý popis

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Hlavní autor

William Dalrymple, 1965-

Typ dokumentu

Knihy

Fyzický popis

522 stran, 48 nečíslovaných stran obrazových příloh : barevné ilustrace, portréty ; 20 cm

Vydáno

London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Témata

East India Company

18. století

východoindické společnosti > Velká Británie > 18. století

mezinárodní obchod > Velká Británie > 18. století

mezinárodní obchod > Indie > 18. století

kolonialismus > Indie > 18. století

East India companies > Great Britain > 18th century

international trade > Great Britain > 18th century

international trade > India > 18th century

colonialism > India > 18th century

monografie

monographs

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ISBN

978-1-4088-6439-5