The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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Description The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire Paperback by Dalrymple, William Publisher : (2022) Language : English Paperback : 2025 ISBN-10 : [1526656523] ISBN-13 : 9781526656520 Weight : 1 Dimensions : 4.7×25.4×20.3 cm The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple (2022) Reviews The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an EmpireAverage Rating:4.2 rating based on 19,045 ratings (all editions)ISBN-10: 1526656523ISBN-13: 9781526656520Goodreads: 114161586Author(s): William DalrymplePublisher: Published: //The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country.In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army.The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional company and became something much more unusual: an international corporation transformed into an aggressive colonial power. Over the course of the next 47 years, the company's reach grew until almost all of India south of Delhi was effectively ruled from a boardroom in the city of London.Information from Goodreads.com The Anarchy Reviews Reviews from Goodreads.com
