East India Company

by Charles Hunter

Overview

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, which was formed to pursue trade with the East Indies but ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and Qing China. Originally chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies", the company rose to account for half of the world's trade, particularly in basic commodities including cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156912834
Publisher:	Charles Hunter
Publication date:	07/14/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	40 KB

About the Author

Charles Hunter