Merchant kings: when companies ruled the world, 1600-1900

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.