Empire Of Things
On personal note I believe what Mahatma Gandhi said while British departed from India" We should let the British depart like good friends as we had very long togetherness on this piece of land".I understand it is difficult for everyone to have similar views. While not a social scientist, Bowen writes in the illustrious tradition of C.H. Business of Empire will prove an invaluable reference work for generations to come. Chapter 5 explores the work of the company’s senior executives, the directors.
The Venetian mastery of the seas and her imperial expansion, however, truly begin with the Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople in 1204, which brought many choice ports over Venetian overlordship. In a way, the "and American Power" part of this book is less about showing how American Hegemony, in the governmental sphere, allows ExxonMobil to push smaller nations around in negotiation than it is about showing the limits of American power. The mistrust that ExxonMobil has in the State in several countries, see portions of the book dealing with Nigerian piracy, may come into play once Tillerson takes the helm at State. This might come in the form of reforming State's position toward Africa, how it handles diplomatic relations with despots , and other likely areas where Tillerson saw ineffective State operations in the countries ExxonMobil had to deal with. This again mirrors 'Padmaavat' , where Malik Kafur is head over heels for Allauddin but the latter doesn't want to take things further.
These biases and omissions, though, are a small price to pay in a book that immerses the reader so fully in the pomp and turmoil of mediaeval Venice. This collection of essays honours David Fieldhouse, latterly Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at Cambridge and a foremost authority on the economics of the modern British Empire. The contributors include an impressive array of former students, colleagues, and friends, and their subjects range widely across the economic and administrative fields of British imperial history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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The prices and ownership of East India Company shares play a special role in the narrative. The author uses movements in the company’s share price and turnover as a metaphor for the relationship between the company and the state. The company’s Andrew Carnegie share prices, Bowen suggests, were driven by speculation and factional politics among company shareholders. By implication, these factors also shaped the company’s relationship with the state. That insider trading and stock-splitting occurred during the 1760s is certainly undisputed. This does not imply, as the author asserts, that share prices best illustrate the company’s “defining institutional characteristics.” Such a creative interpretation of historical share prices is out of synch with the high degree of scholarship elsewhere in the volume.
Exxon reacts from this crisis in both positive and negative ways. It becomes obsessed with safety -- though the company's pursuit of safety is not to assure accident avoidance as much as it is a premise for increasing demands for precision and attention from its workforce. The safety culture Exxon creates becomes, in a menacing way, grounds for enforcing discipline, regimentation and uniformity-of-voice throughout the enterprise. He is reluctant to see much positive there but does admit that movements happen and people have power, and ends up by exhorting his readers “to choose whether to act or do nothing” to help bring about the positive outcome he fears might not happen.
The Dionysian character of the ruling class agitated the ruled and from there spurred the desire to be free in their own land and the people started protesting. The protests failed at first but at the end, the British had to finally leave. The partial treatment to the people of the captured colonies led to the rise of Jingoism in the Natives and ultimately led to rebellion which finally led to decline and fall of the Empire, as it got impossible to govern the colonies and it was an expensive affair. Trade still formed a part of the company’s operations through 1833.
She doesn’t add a great deal to these works, with the exception of well-chosen quotations from a trove of letters Nast wrote late in his life to his second wife, which are touching and revealing about, for example, the sting he felt from business setbacks ... Breeziness is arguably a legitimate stylistic choice for a book about slick magazines. But the abundance of clichés in Condé Nast isn’t defensible ... Some sentences are case studies in what can happen when metaphors collide. Becoming Facebook shares how Facebook navigated in meeting these challenges, but always persisted on in its world disrupting mission of making the world more connected and open. By adopting and staying focused on such a bold mission, the book insists, Facebook has been able to achieve technological marvels like sharing, collecting and categorizing over a billion posts per day.