The East India Company: A History (1990)

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0880295309

Condition: Very Good 

The book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Book Description:

The East India Company - there has never been an enterprise like it. It ruled over nearly one-fifth of the world's population; possessed its own army and navy, its own civil service, even its own church; became the most powerful military force in Asia, and had a revenue greater than that of Britain. It was, in Brian Gardner's words, "a government owned by businessmen, the shares in which were daily bought and sold." - from the back cover