The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
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The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
| Author | Stephen R. Bown |
|---|---|
| Published | 2020 |
| Pages | 496 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Bown’s history of the Hudson’s Bay Company — a chartered corporation that governed a territory larger than most nations for two centuries, and then lost it. |
Where I heard about it
- @lhamtil — posted a photo of the cover on X (August 2025): “Pivoting back to historical finance.”
Connections
- Company Building — a company as a form of government, which is what the HBC literally was.
- Canada — the territory the company administered.
- Globalization — the fur trade as an early long-distance supply chain.
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