How Long to Read The Loss of the "Trades Increase"

How Long Does it Take to Read The Loss of the "Trades Increase"?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 22 minutes to read The Loss of the "Trades Increase" by Richmond Barbour

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Was it the Titanic of its age? Christened by an optimistic King James I in December 1609, the Trades Increase was the greatest English merchant vessel of the Jacobean era—a magnificent ship embodying the hopes of the nascent East India Company to claim a commanding share of the Eastern trade. But the ship's launch failed when it proved too large to exit from its dock, an ill-fated start to an expedition that would end some three years later, when a dangerously leaking Trades Increase at last reached the shores of Java. While its smaller companion vessel would sail home with handsome profits for investors, the rotting hull of the great ship itself was beyond repair. The Trades Increase and nearly all who sailed it perished wretchedly on the far side of the world. The terrible pattern proven by this voyage, with profits to an elite few in London stained by catastrophic losses in equipment and personnel abroad, ignited rancorous controversy in England over the human, moral, and economic costs of such commerce. In The Loss of the "Trades Increase" Richmond Barbour has written an engrossing account of the tragic expedition and of global capitalism at its hour of emergence. Its sources fragmented among journals, minutes, and letters in the archives of the East India Company, the full story of the Trades Increase is told here for the first time. Earlier writers minimized the loss as a temporary setback and necessary sacrifice on the road to empire. In a work informed by corporate history and postcolonial theory, Barbour sees the saga of the voyage, and all that produced and justified it, differently: as an expression of the structural conflicts, operational risks, and material incapacities that haunted and ultimately unraveled the British Empire—and that destabilize multinational corporations, global markets, and our common biosphere to this day.

How long is The Loss of the "Trades Increase"?

The Loss of the "Trades Increase" by Richmond Barbour is 321 pages long, and a total of 80,571 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Loss of the "Trades Increase" Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 20 minutes to read The Loss of the "Trades Increase" aloud.

What Reading Level is The Loss of the "Trades Increase"?

The Loss of the "Trades Increase" is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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