The age of heroic commerce
First among equals : Jan Pieterszoon Coen and the Dutch East India Company
Divided loyalties : Pieter Stuyvesant and the Dutch West India Company
Companies at war : Sir Robert Clive and the English East India Company
The lord of Alaska : Aleksandr Baranov and the Russian American Company
Empire of the beaver : Sir George Simpson and the Hudson's Bay Company
Diamonds and deceit : Cecil John Rhodes and the British South Africa Company
When companies ruled the world.