The Corporation That Changed the World

‘A powerful analysis of the rise and fall of the British East India Company, a private company that conquered a subcontinent and subjugated an entire people’ – Huw Bowen, Professor of Imperial and Maritime History, Swansea University‘Elegantly written and sharply argued, Nick Robins’ gripping account of the rise and fall of the English East India Company brings to life a crucial episode in the history of globalisation’ – Sankar Muthu, Princeton University‘The East India Company might have been relegated to the dustbin of history, but Robins digs it out, looks into the nooks and crannies, and comes up with plenty of insights that today’s managers will find rich and rewarding’ – Mick Blowfield, Senior Research Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University, co-author of Corporate Responsibility (2011)‘Nick Robins’ history of astonishing corporate greed, excess and abuse of power is brilliantly told, and perfectly timed’ – Isabel Hilton, Editor of China Dialogue‘A brilliant, important contribution to an understanding of development and poverty’ – Mari Marcel Thekaekara, New Internationalist

Nick Robins has more than 20 years experience in the policy and practical realities of corporate accountability. A historian by training, he currently works on sustainable and responsible investment in London. He is the author of The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational (Pluto, 2012), and has written on the East India Company for the Financial Times, New Statesman and Resurgence.