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A key member of Henderson's SRI team, Nick Robins is also an historian and gifted writer. This brief meditation on, perhaps, the single most important corporation the world has known illuminates the challenges of a globalising economy and the astonishing power of corporations to effect change across cultures and vast distances. In its 268 year history, The Honourable Company created vast wealth to its British shareholders, conquered much of the Indian subcontinent with its private army, contributed to the loss of the American colonies (remember the Boston Tea Party?), nearly lost the subcontinent in the Mutiny which then led to the establishment of the Raj.... The East India Company's foreign policy still affects relations between India and China and the West. And in every area -- from governance to ethics -- the experience of the East India Company anticipates today's proxy issues.
Disclosure: I reviewed an early draft of this book, and its author and I are friends.
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When Americans think of the moments that produced our legal system, the Revolution and the Civil War come immediately to mind. Few, myself included, realise how great a debt our Constitution owes to the Parliamentary victors in the English Civil Wars of the 1640s: the right to counsel, the right to know the evidence the prosecution relies on, the right to a public trial, the right of cross examination, the notion that all -- including the King -- are subject to the law.... All came from the prosecutions of Charles I and his supporters, and they are largely attributable to John Cooke, the Solicitor General who tried the cases. The relevance of Robertson's book to the contemporary US will be clear within the first couple of pages.
A first rate book. But one caution: some of the descriptions of 17th century executions are not for the faint of stomach. They can be skipped without loss.
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Is there anything we can do to slow and then halt the emissions that are leading to global warming? George Monbiot, The Guardian columnist and long-time social activist, has a plan that, I believe, offers us both hope and a roadmap. This is an extraordinarily important, well-written book.
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The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational by Nick Robins
Peter Kinder, December 9, 2006
A key member of Henderson's SRI team, Nick Robins is also an historian and gifted writer. This brief meditation on, perhaps, the single most important corporation the world has known illuminates the challenges of a globalising economy and the astonishing power of corporations to effect change across cultures and vast distances. In its 268 year history, The Honourable Company created vast wealth to its British shareholders, conquered much of the Indian subcontinent with its private army, contributed to the loss of the American colonies (remember the Boston Tea Party?), nearly lost the subcontinent in the Mutiny which then led to the establishment of the Raj.... The East India Company's foreign policy still affects relations between India and China and the West. And in every area -- from governance to ethics -- the experience of the East India Company anticipates today's proxy issues.Disclosure: I reviewed an early draft of this book, and its author and I are friends.
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The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold by Geoffrey Robertson
Peter Kinder, December 9, 2006
When Americans think of the moments that produced our legal system, the Revolution and the Civil War come immediately to mind. Few, myself included, realise how great a debt our Constitution owes to the Parliamentary victors in the English Civil Wars of the 1640s: the right to counsel, the right to know the evidence the prosecution relies on, the right to a public trial, the right of cross examination, the notion that all -- including the King -- are subject to the law.... All came from the prosecutions of Charles I and his supporters, and they are largely attributable to John Cooke, the Solicitor General who tried the cases. The relevance of Robertson's book to the contemporary US will be clear within the first couple of pages.A first rate book. But one caution: some of the descriptions of 17th century executions are not for the faint of stomach. They can be skipped without loss.
(7 of 9 readers found this comment helpful)
Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning (UK Edition) by George Monbiot and Matthew Prescott
Peter Kinder, December 9, 2006
Is there anything we can do to slow and then halt the emissions that are leading to global warming? George Monbiot, The Guardian columnist and long-time social activist, has a plan that, I believe, offers us both hope and a roadmap. This is an extraordinarily important, well-written book.(5 of 6 readers found this comment helpful)