Splendid exchange: how trade shaped the world.
William J. Bernstein
- New York: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008.
- x, 467p.
List of maps -- ix -- Introduction p. 1 -- 1. Sumer -- p. 20 -- 2. The straits of trade -- p. 43 -- 3. Camels, perfumes, and prophets p. 54 -- 4. The Baghdad-Canton express -- p. 77 -- 5. The taste of trade and the captives of trade -- p. 110 -- 6. The disease of trade -- p. 130 -- 7. Da Gama's urge -- p. 152 -- 8. A world encompassed p. 198 -- 9. The coming of corporations p. 214 -- 10. Transplants -- p. 241 -- 11. The triumph and tragedy of free trade -- p. 280 -- 12. What Henry Bessemer wrought -- p. 316 -- 13. Collapse -- p. 338 -- 14. The Battle of Seattle. -- p. 366 -- Acknowledgments -- p. 387 -- Notes -- p. 389 -- Bibliography -- p. 429 -- Illustration credits -- p. 449 -- Index -- p. 453.
Traces the evolution of international trade, from ancient Mesopotamia to today's global marketplace, exploring the influence of commerce on agriculture, technology, politics, and civilization as a whole.