🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 "Yet the French East India Companies were major imperial and capitalist actors in their time. It was, after all, direct rivalry and competition between the British and French East India Companies that drove the establishment of British dominion in India in the decades after the global Seven Years’ War (1754–1763)." https://blog.oup.com/2023/09/a-free-market-the-french-east-india-company-and-modern-capitalism/ #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #France #India #Britain #Europe #Asia #Trade #Capitalism #Imperialism #Empire @histodon @histodons @earlymodern