The East India Company: From Beginning to End

The East India Company Founded at the dawn of the seventeenth century as European nations were establishing global empires, the English East India Company would become a vital part of burgeoning British supremacy. Begun as a joint-stock company for trade with the East Indies, this organization would evolve into one of the world’s first capitalistic corporations. Inside you will read about... - The English in the Atlantic Era and the Founding of the East India Company - The 17th Century: Struggling, Building, and Growing with Violence - The East India Company Enters the 18th Century - The British Government Steps In - China and the Opium Trade - Growing British Involvement in the 19th Century - The End of the East India Company And much more! Over the course of their 250+ years, the East India Company had built a global trading empire, raised an army and waged war, and conquered vast territory, including the entire subcontinent of India. Without their involvement, the British presence