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This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring
legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence. The
English East India Company was the mother of the modern
multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing
Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also
conquered much of India with its private army and broke open
China's markets with opium. The Company's practices shocked its
contemporaries and still reverberate today. This expanded edition
explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance and
regulation drove its spectacular rise and fall. This story provides
vital lessons on both the role of corporations in world history and
the steps required to make global business accountable today.
This exciting story encompasses triumph and disaster as well as
intrigue and financial trickery. The key players including the
General Steam Navigation Company, The New medway Steam Packet
Company and the London Steamboat Company are all looked at in
detail. Nick Robins uses period photographs, handbills to provide
the full story of the boats that came out in the summer and flitted
about, leading to their nickname of 'Thames butterfly boats'.
This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring
legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence. The
English East India Company was the mother of the modern
multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing
Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also
conquered much of India with its private army and broke open
China's markets with opium. The Company's practices shocked its
contemporaries and still reverberate today. This expanded edition
explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance and
regulation drove its spectacular rise and fall. This story provides
vital lessons on both the role of corporations in world history and
the steps required to make global business accountable today.
Sustainable Investing is fast becoming the smart way of generating
long-term returns. With conventional investors now scrambling to
factor in issues such as climate change, this book captures a
turning point in the evolution of global finance. Bringing together
leading practitioners of Sustainable Investing from across the
globe, this book charts how this agenda has evolved, what impact it
has today, and what prospects are emerging for the years ahead.
Sustainable Investing has already been outperforming the
mainstream, and concerned investors need to know how best to
position themselves for potentially radical market change.
_From War to Peace_ tells the story of the adaptation from White
Ensign to Red Ensign, and to flags of other nations, of the
numerous classes of naval ships mainly built during the two world
wars and surplus to requirements with the advent of peace. It also
describes ships sourced from the United States Navy and elsewhere
that were converted for commercial use. The most successful classes
to transfer to the merchant service were the Hunt-class
minesweepers of the Great War, Landing Craft, Tank, the salvage
tugs of World War Two, and the wooden-hulled Fairmile launches
which became familiar at seaside resorts in the 1950s and '60s;
and, of course, the MFV classes that helped the fishing industry in
the postwar years. The story includes the successful commercial
conversions of many of the Flower and Castle Class corvettes and
River Class frigates, notably the 1954 conversion of HMCS
_Stormont_ to a luxury yacht for the Greek shipping magnate
Onassis. It describes why HMS _Charybdis_ became a passenger liner
in the Great War, and how HMS _Albatross_ nearly became a luxury
liner after World War Two, but in fact was transformed into a very
unpopular emigrant ship and ended her days as a floating casino
based at Cape Town. The author reveals the military antecedents of
numerous commercial vessels that many would have thought were built
especially for the service that they later maintained, and it
illustrates just how many Royal Navy vessels ended up in private
ownership. And the question is asked: if the military had not built
so many ships that were eminently suitable for commercial
adaptation, would the technical development of merchant shipping
have progressed at a faster rate than it did? The answer is a
definite 'no', and is illustrated in several ways. It was former
naval vessels that promoted the early development of the Ro-Ro
ferry; former naval ships introduced numerous design innovations,
for example, the raised foredeck common for so many years on
salvage tugs, and, above all, stripped of their military hardware,
ex naval ships provided opportunities for modest investment where
otherwise there would have been none. Copiously illustrated
throughout, the book tells a fascinating story of invention and
ingenious ship conversion, and of pragmatic adaptation in the
financially stringent years after two world wars.
A detailed look at the history of passenger tugs and passenger
tenders which were more specifically designed to service the needs
of passenger liners standing offshore. Packed with information and
photographs and artwork, this is a useful reference source for all
marine and shipping enthusiasts.
The General Steam Navigation Company was one of the best-known and
best-loved shipping companies on the River Thames, well known for
its excursion services. This work presents a story of a traditional
shipping company trying to come to terms with the container age and
roll on/roll off shipping.
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