The world that trade created : society, culture, and the world economy, 1400 to the present / edited...
The world that trade created : society, culture, and the world economy, 1400 to the present / edited...
The world that trade created : society, culture, and the world economy, 1400 to the present / edited by: Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik.
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Publisher
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., c2006.
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N382.09/8
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English
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Physical content
xv, 287 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
The making of market conventions -- The Fujian trade diaspora -- The Chinese tribute system -- Funny money, real growth -- When Asia was the world economy -- Treating good news as no news -- Aztec traders -- Primitive accumulation: Brazilwood -- British merchant in the tropics -- How the other half...
-- The economic culture of drugs -- Chocolate: from coin to commodity -- Brewing up a storm -- Mocca is not chocolate -- The brew of business: coffee's life story -- America and the coffee bean -- Sweet revolutions -- How opium made the world go "round" -- Chewing is good, snorting isn't: how chemis...
-- The tropical Dutch: how the burghers became slavers, by Julia Topik -- Luxurious life of Robinson Crusoe -- No islands in the storm: or, how the Sino-British tea trade deluged the worlds of Pacific islanders -- The violent birth of corporations -- Buccaneers as corporate raiders -- Looking for th...
-- Fiber of fortune: how cotton became the fabric of the industrial age -- Combing the world for cotton -- Killing the golden goose -- A triangular trade in ideas: early modern Europe, China, and Japan -- Sweet success -- Lighting the night and darkening the day, by Dennis Kortheuer -- No mill is an...
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Publisher
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., c2006.
Edition
2nd ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2006.
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The world that trade created : society, culture, and the world economy, 1400 to the present / edited by: Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2006.
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N382.09/8
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74VKmlm4dzJX
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ISBN
0765617080 (hbk.)
9780765617088 (hbk.)
DDC
382.09
MMS ID
991020747859702626
