The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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But though the ‘sea states’ coped most successfully with the economic conditions of the period, their strength and importance should not be exaggerated by hindsight. Much of their overseas commercial activity was risky and unprofitable,27 as the misfortunes of the Royal Africa Company, the South Seas Company and the Dutch West India and East India
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