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Article: The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- New Internationalist
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- May 1, 2007
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The Corporation that Changed the World
How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
by Nick Robins (Orient Longman ISBN 81 250 3022 0; Pluto Press ISBN 9780745325231)
Globalization began in 1600 with a tiny trading company dealing in Asian spices. This book tells the compelling and appalling story of what has been called 'the mother and father of all companies'--the East India Company.
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Although I am Indian, have studied the colonial period and the fight for independence, no history lesson ever presented the extent of the economic devastation wrought by the East India Company on my country. ...