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The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But the Company’s takeover of much of India was achieved by force and fraud; in China, the battering ram was opium. The East...
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oapen-20.500.12657-456692023-06-05T13:09:00Z The Corporation That Changed the World Robins, Nick History History East India Company Economics British Empire India China Bengal London Monopoly Opium bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But the Company’s takeover of much of India was achieved by force and fraud; in China, the battering ram was opium. The East India Company’s corruption and violence shocked its contemporaries and still reverberates today. The Corporation That Changed the World is the first book to examine the Company’s enduring legacy as a corporation. It uncovers the factors that drove it to excess and eventual collapse. This expanded edition looks at recent activist and cultural responses to the Company in China and India, and the corporate reform agenda in light of the economic crisis. In his account of the Company's story Robins highlights enduring lessons on how to make global business accountable. This will be vital reading for students and academics in economics and history. 2017-03-09 23:55 2020-03-17 03:00:31 2020-04-01T13:48:57Z 2020-04-01T13:48:57Z 2012 book 625263 OCN: 987457158 9781849646918 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45669 eng application/pdf n/a 625263.pdf Pluto Press 10.26530/oapen_625263 100046 10.26530/oapen_625263 e7b13f6b-a18c-4c0b-97b8-d1891104b9c4 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781849646918 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 100046 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But the Company’s takeover of much of India was achieved by force and fraud; in China, the battering ram was opium. The East India Company’s corruption and violence shocked its contemporaries and still reverberates today.
The Corporation That Changed the World is the first book to examine the Company’s enduring legacy as a corporation. It uncovers the factors that drove it to excess and eventual collapse. This expanded edition looks at recent activist and cultural responses to the Company in China and India, and the corporate reform agenda in light of the economic crisis.
In his account of the Company's story Robins highlights enduring lessons on how to make global business accountable. This will be vital reading for students and academics in economics and history. |
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