The Rise and Fall of the East India Trading Company

The Pinkerton's are what fills in the gap between corporations directly having armies that could conquer nations and modern corporations. The East India Trading Company was formed in 1600, and it was given a vast state monopoly over trade in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific today. These people are kind of the descendants of the British privateers,. who'd been, you know, just pirates, who had been hired by the government to only go after like Spanish ships instead of English ships.