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Anarchy, The: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

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Anarchy, The: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

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SKU: 9781408864395 Category: Product ID: 52971

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Title: Anarchy, The: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Author: DALRYMPLE WILLIAM
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/09/2020
Imprint: BLOOMSBURY
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active

THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019
THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019

A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

‘Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India A book of beauty‘ o Gerard DeGroot, The Times
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual- an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business.

William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.

ISBN: 9781408864395
Pages: 544
Edition: 01