The Historian, March 22nd, 1995
John Keay has written a history as fast-paced and gripping as any novel. Using language as rich and colorful as the merchants, seadogs, and soldiers who people his narrative, Keay recounts the near-mythic exploits of those who built a trading colossus and won the Jewel in the Crown - India.
Keay's account underscores the cliche that the British Empire was the product of absent-mindedness. He finds the origins of that world-state not in the North American settlements but with the Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, a group chartered by Elizabeth I on the last day of ...
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