The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present

by Pomeranz; Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9780765617088
• ISBN10: 0765617080
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Author Biography

Steven Topik is professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. Kenneth Pomeranz is Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, where he has taught since 1988.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Kevin Reilly
Introduction	xi
The Making of Market Conventions	3	(38)
The Fujian Trade Diaspora	9	(2)
The Chinese Tribute System	11	(3)
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	(2)
A British Merchant in the Tropics	25	(2)
How the Other Half Traded	27	(3)
Deals and Ordeals: World Trade and Early Modern Legal Culture	30	(2)
Traveling Salesmen, Traveling Taxmen	32	(3)
Going Nonnative: Expense Accounts and the End of the Age of Merchant Courtiers	35	(3)
Empire on a Shoestring: British Adventurers and Indian Financiers in Calcutta, 1750--1850	38	(3)
The Tactics of Transport	41	(30)
Woods, Winds, Shipbuilding, and Shipping: Why China Didn't Rule the Waves	47	(2)
Better to Be Lucky than Smart	49	(2)
Seats of Government and Their Stomachs: An Eighteenth-Century Tour	51	(2)
Pioneers of Dusty Rooms: Warehouses, Transatlantic Trade, and the Opening of the North American Frontier	53	(2)
People Patterns: Was the Real America Sichuan?	55	(3)
Winning Raffles	58	(4)
Trade, Disorder, and Progress: Creating Shanghai, 1840--1930	62	(2)
E Unum Pluribus	64	(3)
Guaranteed Profits and Half-Fulfilled Hopes: Railroad Building in British India	67	(2)
A Brief Trip Across the Centuries	69	(2)
The Economic Culture of Drugs	71	(26)
Chocolate: From Coin to Commodity	75	(2)
Brewing up a Storm	77	(3)
Mocca Is Not Chocolate	80	(3)
The Brew of Business: Coffee's Life Story	83	(2)
America and the Coffee Bean	85	(2)
Sweet Revolutions	87	(3)
How Opium Made the World Go ``Round''	90	(4)
Chewing Is Good, Snorting Isn't: How Chemistry Turned a Good Thing Bad (Coca)	94	(3)
Transplanting: Commodities in World Trade	97	(44)
Unnatural Resources	104	(3)
Bouncing Around	107	(2)
Golden Misfortune: John Sutter in the Wilds of California	109	(2)
California Gold and the World	111	(3)
Beautiful Bugs	114	(2)
How to Turn Nothing into Something: Guano's Ephemeral Fortunes	116	(3)
Fur and Fashion in the Far East	119	(2)
Not Just Peanuts: One Crop's Career in Farm and Factory	121	(2)
As American as Sugar and Pineapples	123	(3)
Saved from Sugar Shock	126	(2)
How the Cows Ate the Cowboys	128	(2)
The Tie That Bound	130	(2)
The Good Earth?	132	(3)
One Potato, Two Potato	135	(3)
Trying to Get a Grip: Natural Rubber's Century of Ups and Downs	138	(3)
The Economics of Violence	141	(34)
Map: The Slave Trade, 15th--19th Centuries	146	(3)
The Logic of an Immoral Trade	149	(2)
As Rich as Potosi	151	(3)
The Freebooting Founders of England's Free Seas	154	(2)
The Tropical Dutch: How the Burghers Became Slavers	156	(2)
Julia Topik
The Luxurious Life of Robinson Crusoe	158	(2)
No Islands in the Storm: Or, How the Sino-British Tea Trade Deluged the Worlds of Pacific Islanders	160	(3)
The Violent Birth of Corporations	163	(2)
Buccaneers as Corporate Raiders	165	(3)
Looking for the Next Worst Thing: Emancipation, Indentures, and Colonial Plantations After Slavery	168	(2)
Bloody Ivory Tower	170	(2)
Julia Topik
Never Again: The Saga of the Rosenfelders	172	(3)
Making Modern Markets	175	(40)
Silver Lining	180	(2)
Currency over Country?	182	(2)
Weighing the World: The Metric Revolution	184	(2)
Growing Global: International Grain Markets	186	(3)
How Time Got That Way	189	(2)
The Ghost of Maximilian	191	(1)
How the United States Joined the Big Leagues	192	(3)
Banking on Asia	195	(2)
Fresher Is Not Better	197	(2)
Packaging	199	(3)
Trademarks: What's in a Name?	202	(3)
Learning to Feel Unclean: A Global Marketing Tale	205	(2)
Things Go Better with Red, White, and Blue: How Coca-Cola Conquered Europe	207	(2)
Survival of the First	209	(1)
It Ain't Necessarily So	210	(2)
Where Is Andorra?	212	(3)
World Trade, Industrialization, and Deindustrialization	215	(40)
Map: The World Economy in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries	224	(2)
Sweet Industry: The First Factories	226	(2)
Fiber of Fortune: How Cotton Became the Fabric of the Industrial Age	228	(3)
Combing the World for Cotton	231	(2)
Killing the Golden Goose	233	(3)
A Triangular Trade in Ideas: Early Modern Europe, China, and Japan	236	(1)
Sweet Success	237	(2)
Lighting the Night and Darkening the Day	239	(2)
Dennis Kortheuer
No Mill Is an Island	241	(2)
Feeding Silkworms, Spitting out Growth	243	(3)
From Rocks---and Restrictions---to Riches: How Disadvantages Helped New England Industrialize Early	246	(2)
American Oil	248	(4)
Running on Oil, Building on Sand	252	(3)
Epilogue: The World Economy in the Twenty-First Century	255	(12)
Abbreviated Bibliography	267	(6)
Index	273