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**Everything Has a Price: The Commercial Gaze and the Origins of Corporate Empire**
"_As travel narratives from the early days of the English East India Company—1601 to 1611—show, the mature form of the British Empire took shape via a commercial gaze that increasingly rendered the world as inventory. By the end of this period, such narratives focused obsessively on the dry heights of markets, merchandise, and profit—even when the journeys themselves had been harrowing._"
