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

Author: Stephen R. Bown Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312616113 9781553653424 0312616112 1553653424

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. Similar books: 1494 by Stephen R. Bown Scurvy by Stephen R. Bown Madness, Betrayal and the Lash by Stephen R. Bown Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck The History of Surfing by Matt Warshaw Washington's Immortals by Patrick K. O'Donnell American Gun by Chris Kyle No Way Out by Mitch Weiss Swords and Swordsmen by Mike Loades Dress in Anglo-Saxon England by Gale R. Owen-Crocker Season of the Witch by David Talbot Almost a Miracle by John Ferling War Bonds by Cindy Hval Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears