Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600 - 1900 by Stephen R. Bown

Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600 - 1900

Stephen R. Bown

314 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction business economics history informative slow-paced
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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 cent...

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