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082			_a382.05 _bTRA
245			_aTrade and development report, 2008: _breport by the secretariat of the United Nations conference on trade and development / _cUnited Nations
260			_bAcademic Foundation: _c2008. _aNew Delhi:
300			_axxvi, 201 p.
505			_a1 Sumer-- 2 The Straits of Trade-- 3 Camels, Perfumes, and Prophets-- 4 The Baghdad-Canton Express-- 5 The Taste of Trade and the Captives of Trade-- 6 The Disease of Trade-- 7 Da Gama's Urge-- 8 A World Encompassed-- 9 The Coming of Corporations-- 10 Transplants-- 11 The Triumph and Tragedy of Free Trade-- 12 What Henry Bessemer Wrought-- 13 Collapse-- 14 The Battle of Seattle; Acknowledgments; Notes;
520			_a A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. It travels from the sugar rush that brought the British to Jamaica in the seventeenth century to our current debates over globalization, from the silk route between China and Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly in spices in the sixteenth. Throughout, William Bernstein examines how our age-old dependency on trade has contributed to our planet's agricultural bounty, stimulated intellectual and industrial progress.
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