The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
Some chieftains took substantial diplomatic gifts – or bribes – to stay neutral or act as buffers. Raiding parties of Scotti and Attacotti from Ireland or Argyll, and Picti from Caledonia increased in scale and sophistication to the point where, in 367, frontier scouts – the areani – were comprehensively bribed into complicity. Channel pirates, car
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