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Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900 ChicagoCommerce 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 leaders of
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His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Together in one volume—the first three books in the world’s most beloved science-fiction series
original archival documents
this work combines psychology
state-sanctioned
and Edgar Allan Poe
this book offers a panoramic
"a great comic vision
has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time
without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper
tackles Wall Street reform