Kits Beach Starbucks, outside table — Vancouver, B.C.
Caucasian male, hipster, with shaggy blond curls poking out from under fedora, wearing jeans, plaid shirt (urban plaid), and drinking a vente triple-shot espresso.
The European Colonial Empires: 1815-1919, H.L. Wesseling (Longman)
Page 6:
The company system was encouraged, because the administrative costs were borne not by the state but by those who made the profit, namely the traders. In England various overseas trading companies had been founded as early as the 1560s and in 1600 a British East India Company was created there as well. In 1648 it established its headquarters in East India House, not far from the harbours and docks of London. In 1657 this undertaking received a charter and became a joint stock company. Its activities focused mainly on India and China.
The pretentions and stereotypes of my neighbourhood prevail in many ways, yet I do think this fellow was thoroughly enjoying his book.
