The Richest East India Merchant: The Life and Business of John Palmer of Calcutta, 1767-1836

by Anthony Webster

Book Overview

John Palmer was the most influential and wealthiest British merchant in British India for the first three decades of the nineteenth century. He ran an 'agency house', a global commercial firm involved in banking, the opium trade, shipping, plantation agriculture and trade with Britain, Europe, China, south east Asia and the USA. When his firm went bankrupt in 1830, thousands of people, European and Indian, were ruined, triggering the worst commercial...

• Format: Unknown Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0082OTFL6
• ISBN13: 9781843833031
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.7"