Summary Of Stephen R Bown S Merchant Kings
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Summary Of Stephen R Bown S Merchant Kings
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-05-10T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Stephen R Bown S Merchant Kings written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-10T22:59:00Z with Business & Economics categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Dutch East India Company, the VOC, had a conflict with the English East India Company over control of the lucrative spice trade in Indonesia. The two companies sought to oust the Portuguese and dominate the trade. #2 In 1602, the Dutch East India Company secured a monopoly on the nutmeg trade on the Banda Islands. Some of the orang kaya had signed the contract, fearing to offend the merchants and invite violent reprisals. #3 The Bandanese were wary of Dutch traders, who did not impress them with their often useless trade goods. The islanders were also frightened by the sight of so many armed Dutchmen. #4 The Dutch East India Company conquered the Banda Islands in 1636, and they began to enforce a monopoly on the nutmeg trade. However, the Bandanese were still able to smuggle their nutmeg to English factories on the outlying islands of Ai and Run.
Merchant Kings
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Author : Stephen R. Bown
language : en
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Release Date : 2009-12-01
Merchant Kings written by Stephen R. Bown and has been published by D & M Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-01 with History categories.
Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world, as told by “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: Jan Pieterszoon Coen of the Dutch East India Company Pieter Stuyvesant of the Dutch West India Company Robert Clive of the English East India Company Alexandr Baranov of the Russian-American Company George Simpson of the Hudson’s Bay Company Cecil John Rhodes of the British South Africa Company
1494
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Author : Stephen R. Bown
language : en
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Release Date : 2011-07-25
1494 written by Stephen R. Bown and has been published by D & M Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-25 with History categories.
When Columbus triumphantly returned from America to Spain in 1493, his discoveries inflamed an already-smouldering conflict between Spain's renowned monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, and Portugal's João II. Which nation was to control the world's oceans? To quell the argument, Pope Alexander VI - the notorious Rodrigo Borgia - issued a proclamation laying the foundation for the Treaty of Tordesillas, an edict that created an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean dividing the entire known (and unknown) world between Spain and Portugal. Just as the world's oceans were about to be opened by Columbus's epochal voyage, the treaty sought to limit the seas to these two favoured Catholic nations. The edict was to have a profound influence on world history: it propelled Spain and Portugal to superpower status, steered many other European nations on a collision course and became the central grievance in two centuries of international espionage, piracy and warfare. At the heart of one of the greatest international diplomatic and political agreements of the last five centuries were the strained relationships and passions of a handful of powerful individuals. They were linked by a shared history, mutual animosity and personal obligations.
The Company
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Author : Stephen Bown
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Release Date : 2020-10-27
The Company written by Stephen Bown and has been published by Doubleday Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-27 with History categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people--from the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the great plains, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many Indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America. When the Company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson--one of the greatest villains in Canadian history--and the Company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world. Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company's history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel.
Scurvy
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Author : Stephen Bown
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2021-11-17
Scurvy written by Stephen Bown and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-17 with History categories.
In the Age of Sail scurvy was responsible for more deaths at sea than piracy, shipwreck and all other illnesses, and its cure ranks among the greatest of military successes – yet its impact on history has mostly been ignored. Stephen Bown searches back to the earliest recorded appearance of scurvy in the sixteenth century, to the eighteenth century when the disease was at its gum-shredding, bone-snapping worst, and to the early nineteenth century, when the preventative was finally put into service. Bown introduces us to James Lind, the navy surgeon and medical detective, whose research on the disease spawned the implementation of the cure; Captain James Cook, who successfully avoided scurvy on his epic voyages; and Gilbert Blane, whose social status and charisma won over the British Navy. Scurvy is a lively recounting of how three determined individuals overcame the constraints of eighteenth-century thinking to solve the greatest medical mystery of their era.
The East India Company S Maritime Service 1746 1834
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Author : Jean Sutton
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2010
The East India Company S Maritime Service 1746 1834 written by Jean Sutton and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Business & Economics categories.
The book charts in detail successive voyages by members of the Larkins family, who were leading owners of East India Company ships, showing what it was like to sail to and trade with India in this period. It provides a great deal of material on trade, warfare, developments in seamanship and navigation, the opening up of trade to China, and much more.
Port Huron 1880 1960
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Author : T. J. Gaffney
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2006
Port Huron 1880 1960 written by T. J. Gaffney and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
In this wonderful collection of images, discover Port Huron as it once was. Although Port Huron is now referred to as the "Maritime Capital of the Great Lakes," its initial growth happened because it was a point where roads, rails, and water all met to create the center of commerce it became. Return to a time when people rode streetcars and interurbans, took day trips to Detroit on ships such as the Tashmoo and the Greyhound; when they worked and shopped in downtown stores; and when they lived in diverse ethnic neighborhoods such as South Park and the First Ward. Many of the postcards seen here were mailed at or near the beginning of the 20th century and were a way to communicate basic information between friends and family. These images have now returned to introduce a new generation to what Port Huron once was. In an age where e-mails instantly travel back and forth, it can be hard to imagine how those receiving these messages anxiously awaited what messages arrived with these penny postcards.
International Law And The History Of Resource Extraction In Africa
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Author : George Forji Amin
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-09-21
International Law And The History Of Resource Extraction In Africa written by George Forji Amin and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-21 with History categories.
This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent’s trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system. The book interrogates the economic and legal structures that supported European intervention in Africa. It explores the trade and private property rights which were to shape the economic future of the continent, most notably the trade in human beings as legitimate private property by European powers. The book then looks at the techniques used to submerge African sovereignty under European sovereignty during the scramble for territorial control in the 19th century, concluding with the validation of occupation in international law following the 1884-85 Berlin Conference. The book argues that the doctrines of trade and property rights sanctioned by international law led to a trend of African dispossession that set the continent on a path to underdevelopment, with long-reaching consequences. This book will be of interest to researchers and students across law, history, economics, international relations, and African studies.
The History Of The Port Of London
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Author : Peter Stone
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2017-08-30
The History Of The Port Of London written by Peter Stone and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-30 with History categories.
“This meticulously researched account underlines the importance of the capital’s docklands . . . from Roman landing to modern financial centre.” —Discover Britain The River Thames has been integral to the prosperity of London since Roman times. Explorers sailed away on voyages of discovery to distant lands. Colonies were established and a great empire grew. Funding their ships and cargoes helped make the City of London into the world’s leading financial center. In the nineteenth century a vast network of docks was created for ever-larger ships, behind high, prison-like walls that kept them secret from all those who did not toil within. Sail made way for steam as goods were dispatched to every corner of the world. In the nineteenth century London was the world’s greatest port city. In the Second World War the Port of London became Hitler’s prime target. It paid a heavy price but soon recovered. Yet by the end of the 20th century the docks had been transformed into Docklands, a new financial center. The History of the Port of London: A Vast Emporium of Nations is the fascinating story of the rise and fall and revival of the commercial river. The only book to tell the whole story and bring it right up to date, it charts the foundation, growth and evolution of the port and explains why for centuries it has been so important to Britain’s prosperity. This book will appeal to those interested in London’s history, maritime and industrial heritage, the Docklands and East End of London, and the River Thames.
The Honourable Company
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Author : John Keay
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2010-07-08
The Honourable Company written by John Keay and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-08 with History categories.
A history of the English East India company.