Revised edition of the authors' The world that trade created, 2013. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The making of market conventions -- Transport and tactics -- The economic culture of drugs -- Transplanting -- The economics of violence -- Making modern markets -- World trade, industrialization, and deindustrialization -- Manufacturing since World War II -- Epilogue: the world economy in the twenty-first century -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
"The World That Trade Created" brings to lief the history of trade and its actors. Covering over seven hundred years of history, this book takes the reader around the world from the history of the opium trade to pirates, to the building of corporations and migration to the New World. The chapters are grouped thematically, each featuring an introductory essay designed to synthesize and elaborate on key themes. It includes ten new essays, on topics ranging from the early modern ivory and slave trades across the Indian Ocean, to the ways in which the availability of new consumer goods helped change work habits in both Europe and East Asia, and from the history of chewing gum to that of rare earth metals. -- From publisher's description.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.