Merchant Kings : When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900 Product Form:Paperback / softback Peter Bentley's life story is

Peter Bentley's life story is one of great challenges and unequivocal successes

after generations living in a poverty-stricken area of Guangdong

It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion

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Merchant Kings : When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900 Product Form:Paperback / softback Peter Bentley's life story isDescription Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant adventurers who built the modern world. It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating their subjects as employees, customers or competitors. The