Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900 Chicago and social legacies

and social legacies

this work combines psychology

tackles Wall Street reform

"a great comic vision

Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900 Chicago and social legaciesCommerce 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