Full name: The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company

Author: John Keay Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Business, Economics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780006380726 0006380727

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. In a tapestry ranging from Southern Africa to north-west America, and from the reign of Elizabeth I to that of Victoria, bizarre locations and roguish personality abound. From Bombay to Singapore and Hong Kong the political geography of today is, in some respects, the result of the Company. This book looks at the history of the East India Company. Similar books: The Anarchy by William Dalrymple A Short History of England by G. K. Chesterton Early India by Romila Thapar The Great Moghuls by Bamber Gascoigne Indian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann Unnatural Murder by Anne Somerset India by John Keay Raj by Lawrence James The Domesday Book by Thomas Hinde The Reign of Elizabeth by J. B. Black The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru A New History of India by Stanley Wolpert The Ruling Caste by David Gilmour Civilization by Roger Osborne The Kings and Queens of England by Nicholas Best Money Changes Everything by William N. Goetzmann The History of Money by Jack Weatherford China by John Keay The Great Arc by John Keay The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David S. Landes