The Honourable Company

During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into the grandest society of merchants in the universe. As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there would have been no British India and no British Empire.

Author: John Keay
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 10/22/1993
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.80h x 4.90w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9780006380726
ISBN10: 0006380727
BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia | South | General
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
- Business & Economics | General

About the Author

John Keay is a writer, broadcaster and historian whose books include 'Into India', 'India Discovered', 'When Men and Mountains Meet', 'Highland Drove', 'The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company', 'The Great Arc', 'China: A History' and (with his wife, Julia Keay) the 'Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland'. He has travelled extensively in India and the Far East, and specialised in Asian history and current affairs.

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