A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World 9781555848439, 1555848435
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Maps; Introduction; 1 Sumer; 2 The Straits of Trad
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English Pages 392 pages Year 2008;2009
Table of contents :
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Maps
Introduction
1 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
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index.
