A World for the Taking: The Ships of the Honourable East India Company

by E. Keble Chatterton and Edward Keble Chatterton

It was a time when one of the most powerful rulers in the world wasn't a government-it was a corporation. It's official name was "The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies." Some simply called it "John Company," others "Company Bahadur." But most people knew it as the Honourable East India Company. It was the first major shareholder-owned business enterprise. At its height it ruled more than a fifth of the world's population,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934757438
• ISBN13: 9781934757437
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Fireship Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"