The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire

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 saw it: Posted by @lhamtil on X (August 19, 2025) with a cover photo: “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.