The Honourable Company

by John Keay
Category: "World History - Cultural"
Pages:456
Year of Publication:1991
Date Added:08/07/2006
Date Read:11/09/1997
Notes:Subtitle: A History of the English East India Company

A history of the Company from its charter in 1603 as traders in the Spice Islands, through the wars in India and the assumption of government under Clive and Hastings, to the opium-for-tea trade with China that led to the founding of Singapore and Hong Kong.
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