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The World That Trade Created: Culture, Society and the World Economy, 1400-1918

by: Pomeranz; Kenneth

The World That Trade Created: Culture, Society and the World Economy, 1400-1918

by: Pomeranz; Kenneth

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9780765602503
ISBN 10:
0765602504
Edition: 1st
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Copyright: 01/31/2000
Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

In more than 75 brief vignettes, authors Pomeranz and Topik offer unique and entertaining historical perspectives on the world economy, showing that much of 20th century "globalization" goes back centuries.

Foreword

Kevin Reilly

Introduction

The Making of Market Conventions

(41)

The Fujian Trade Diaspora

(3)

The Chinese Tribute System

(2)

Funny Money, Real Growth

(2)

When Asia Was the World Economy

(2)

Treating Good News as No News

(3)

Aztec Traders

(2)

Primitive Accumulation: Brazilwood

(3)

A British Merchant in the Tropics

(2)

How the Other Half Traded

(3)

Deals and Ordeals: World Trade and Early Modern Legal Culture

(2)

Traveling Salesmen, Traveling Taxmen

(3)

Going Non-Native: Expense Accounts and the End of the Age of Merchant Courtiers

(2)

Empire on a Shoestring: British Adventurers and Indian Financiers in Calcutta, 1750-1850

(3)

What Did They Know and When Did They Know It? The Growth of Knowledge and East-West Trade, 1500-1800

(3)

The Tractics of Transport

(33)

Woods, Winds, Shipbuilding, and Shipping: Why China Didn't Rule the Waves

(2)

Better to Be Lucky than Smart

(2)

Seats of Government and Their Stomachs: An Eighteenth-Century Tour

(2)

Pioneers of Dusty Rooms: Warehouses, Trans-Atlantic Trade, and the Opening of the North American Frontier

(2)

People Patterns: Was the Real America Sichuan?

(3)

Winning Raffles

(4)

Scandalous Panama: Or, How the Plan to Get Rich with the Big Ditch Had a Hitch

(2)

E Unum Pluribus

(3)

Guaranteed Profits and Half-Fulfilled Hopes: Railroad Building in British India

(2)

Trade Woes: The Yankees Strike Out

(4)

The Economic Culture of Drugs

(32)

Chocolate: From Coin to Commodity

(2)

Brewing Up a Storm

(2)

Mocca Is Not Chocolate

(3)

The Brew of Business: Coffee's Life Story

(3)

America and the Coffee Bean

(2)

Sweet Revolutions

(2)

Where There's Smoke

(3)

Will Swaim

Drug Wars

(3)

Will Swaim

How Opium Made the World Go ``Round''

102

(3)

Chewing Is Good, Snorting Isn't: How Chemistry Turned a Good Thing Bad (Coca)

105

(4)

Transplanting: Commodities in World Trade

109

(38)

Unnatural Resources

116

(3)

Bouncing Around

119

(2)

California Gold and the World

121

(3)

Beautiful Bugs

124

(2)

How to Turn Nothing into Something: Guano's Ephemeral Fortunes

126

(3)

Not Just Peanuts: One Crop's Career in Farm and Factory

129

(2)

As American as Sugar and Pineapples

131

(2)

Saved from Sugar Shock

133

(3)

How the Cows Ate the Cowboys

136

(2)

The Tie that Bound

138

(2)

The Good Earth?

140

(3)

One Potato, Two Potato

143

(4)

The Economics of Violence

147

(32)

The Logic of an Immoral Trade

154

(2)

As Rich as Potosi

156

(2)

The Freebooting Founders of England's Free Seas

158

(3)

No Islands in the Storm: Or, How the Sino-British Tea Trade Deluged the Worlds of Pacific Islanders

161

(2)

The Violent Birth of Corporations

163

(3)

Buccaneers as Corporate Raiders

166

(2)

The Bloody Decades

168

(3)

Commercial Warfare

171

(2)

Man O' War

173

(3)

Never Again: The Saga of the Rosenfelders

176

(3)

Making Modern Markets

179

(35)

Silver Lining

183

(3)

Currency over Country?

186

(1)

Weighing the World: The Metric Revolution

187

(3)

Growing Global: International Grain Markets

190

(2)

How Time Got That Way

192

(2)

The Ghost of Maximilian

194

(2)

How the United States Joined the Big Leagues

196

(2)

Banking on Asia

198

(3)

Fresher Is Not Better

201

(2)

Advertising the World

203

(3)

Will Swaim

Trademarks: What's in a Name?

206

(3)

Survival of the First

209

(2)

It Ain't Necessarily So

211

(3)

World Trade, Industrialization, and De-Industrialization

214

(27)

Sweet Industry: The First Factories

223

(2)

Fiber of Fortune: How Cotton Became the Fabric of the Industrial Age

225

(3)

Killing the Golden Goose

228

(3)

Sweet Success

231

(2)

No Mill Is an Island

233

(2)

Feeding Silkworms, Spitting Out Growth

235

(2)

From Rocks---and Restrictions---to Riches: How Disadvantages Helped New England Industrialize Early

237

(4)

Bibliography

241

(6)

Index

247

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