The Corporation That Changed the World

How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational

By: Nick Robins

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Paperback | 11 October 2012 | Edition Number 2

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This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence.

The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Company's practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today.

This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance and regulation drove its spectacular rise and fall. This story provides vital lessons on both the role of corporations in world history and the steps required to make global business accountable today.

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'A powerful analysis of the rise and fall of the British East India Company, a private company that conquered a subcontinent and subjugated an entire people' -- Huw Bowen, Professor of Imperial and Maritime History, Swansea University
'Elegantly written and sharply argued, Nick Robins' gripping account of the rise and fall of the English East India Company brings to life a crucial episode in the history of globalisation' -- Sankar Muthu, Princeton University
'The East India Company might have been relegated to the dustbin of history, but Robins digs it out, looks into the nooks and crannies, and comes up with plenty of insights that today's managers will find rich and rewarding' -- Mick Blowfield, Senior Research Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University, co-author of Corporate Responsibility (2011)
'Nick Robins' history of astonishing corporate greed, excess and abuse of power is brilliantly told, and perfectly timed' -- Isabel Hilton, Editor of China Dialogue
'A brilliant, important contribution to an understanding of development and poverty' -- Mari Marcel Thekaekara, New Internationalist

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List of Tables, Figures, Maps and Illustrations	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Chronology	p. xvi
The Hidden Wound	p. 1
This Imperious Company	p. 19
Out of the Shadows	p. 41
The Bengal Revolution	p. 61
The Great East Indian Crash	p. 84
Regulating the Company	p. 102
Justice Will be Done	p. 122
The Toxic Exchange	p. 145
A Skulking Power	p. 171
Unfinished Business	p. 199
Epilogue	p. 217
Notes	p. 227
Select Bibliography	p. 245
Index	p. 251
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The Corporation That Changed the World

How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational

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