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9780765602503

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

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    9780765602503

  • ISBN10:

    0765602504

  • Edition: 1st
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  • Copyright: 2000-01-31
  • Publisher: Routledge
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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.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Kevin Reilly
Introduction xi
The Making of Market Conventions
3(41)
The Fujian Trade Diaspora
9(3)
The Chinese Tribute System
12(2)
Funny Money, Real Growth
14(2)
When Asia Was the World Economy
16(2)
Treating Good News as No News
18(3)
Aztec Traders
21(2)
Primitive Accumulation: Brazilwood
23(3)
A British Merchant in the Tropics
26(2)
How the Other Half Traded
28(3)
Deals and Ordeals: World Trade and Early Modern Legal Culture
31(2)
Traveling Salesmen, Traveling Taxmen
33(3)
Going Non-Native: Expense Accounts and the End of the Age of Merchant Courtiers
36(2)
Empire on a Shoestring: British Adventurers and Indian Financiers in Calcutta, 1750-1850
38(3)
What Did They Know and When Did They Know It? The Growth of Knowledge and East-West Trade, 1500-1800
41(3)
The Tractics of Transport
44(33)
Woods, Winds, Shipbuilding, and Shipping: Why China Didn't Rule the Waves
51(2)
Better to Be Lucky than Smart
53(2)
Seats of Government and Their Stomachs: An Eighteenth-Century Tour
55(2)
Pioneers of Dusty Rooms: Warehouses, Trans-Atlantic Trade, and the Opening of the North American Frontier
57(2)
People Patterns: Was the Real America Sichuan?
59(3)
Winning Raffles
62(4)
Scandalous Panama: Or, How the Plan to Get Rich with the Big Ditch Had a Hitch
66(2)
E Unum Pluribus
68(3)
Guaranteed Profits and Half-Fulfilled Hopes: Railroad Building in British India
71(2)
Trade Woes: The Yankees Strike Out
73(4)
The Economic Culture of Drugs
77(32)
Chocolate: From Coin to Commodity
82(2)
Brewing Up a Storm
84(2)
Mocca Is Not Chocolate
86(3)
The Brew of Business: Coffee's Life Story
89(3)
America and the Coffee Bean
92(2)
Sweet Revolutions
94(2)
Where There's Smoke
96(3)
Will Swaim
Drug Wars
99(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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