The World That Trade Created

Covering over seven hundred years of history, this book, now in its fourth edition, takes the reader around the world from the history of the opium trade to pirates, to the building of corporations and migration to the New World. It includes ten new essays, on topics ranging from the early modern ivory and slave trades across the Indian Ocean, to the ways in which the availability of new consumer goods helped changed work habits in both Europe and East Asia, and from the history of chewing gum to that of rare earth metals. *

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The World That Trade Created brings to life the history of trade and its actors. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, filled with insights and amazing facts about things we tend to take for granted, the authors uncover the deep historical roots of economic globalization.

Covering over seven hundred years of history, this book, now in its fourth edition, takes the reader around the world from the history of the opium trade to pirates, to the building of corporations and migration to the New World. The chapters are grouped thematically, each featuring an introductory essay designed to synthesize and elaborate on key themes, both familiar and unfamiliar. It includes ten new essays, on topics ranging from the early modern ivory and slave trades across the Indian Ocean, to the ways in which the availability of new consumer goods helped change work habits in both Europe and East Asia, and from the history of chewing gum to that of rare earth metals. The introductory essays for each chapter, the overall introduction and epilogue, and several of the essays have also been revised and updated. *

The World That Trade Created* continues to be a key resource for anyone teaching world history, world civilization, and the history of international trade.

'In this collection of short essays, Pomeranz and Topik masterfully depict the story of the creation of the world economy. Without using academic jargon, they explain how trade with commodities, drugs, animals, people and ideas moved among continents and transformed the world.' Manel Ollé, associate tenure professor in Modern and contemporary Chinese history and culture, Director of the Master in Chinese Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 'How invisible networks of trade ultimately came to compelproducers,merchants, and even whole societies to adapt to the networks' needs as they grewis a fascinating story, and one just as important for understanding the world as developments inpolitics or culture are.I know of no other book that introduces trade networks so well. It is an ideal text for survey courses.' Roland Spickermann - Chair, Dept. of History,University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USA

Autorentext

Kenneth Pomeranz is University Professor in History at the University of Chicago, USA, and was President of the American Historical Association in 2013-14.　 Steven Topik is Professor of History at UC Irvine, USA, where he has worked since 1984. Previously he taught at Brazil's Universidade　 Federal Fluminense and Colgate University.

Klappentext

The World That Trade Created brings to life the history of trade and its actors. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, filled with insights and amazing facts about things we tend to take for granted, the authors uncover the deep historical roots of economic globalization. Covering over seven hundred years of history, this book, now in its fourth edition, takes the reader around the world from the history of the opium trade to pirates, to the building of corporations and migration to the New World. The chapters are grouped thematically, each featuring an introductory essay designed to synthesize and elaborate on key themes, both familiar and unfamiliar. It includes ten new essays, on topics ranging from the early modern ivory and slave trades across the Indian Ocean, to the ways in which the availability of new consumer goods helped change work habits in both Europe and East Asia, and from the history of chewing gum to that of rare earth metals. The introductory essays for each chapter, the overall introduction and epilogue, and several of the essays have also been revised and updated. The World That Trade Created continues to be a key resource for anyone teaching world history, world civilization, and the history of international trade.

Zusammenfassung

The World That Trade Created brings to life the history of trade and its actors. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, filled with insights and amazing facts about things we tend to take for granted, the authors uncover the deep historical roots of economic globalization.

Covering over seven hundred years of history, this book, now in its fourth edition, takes the reader around the world from the history of the opium trade to pirates, to the building of corporations and migration to the New World. The chapters are grouped thematically, each featuring an introductory essay designed to synthesize and elaborate on key themes, both familiar and unfamiliar. It includes ten new essays, on topics ranging from the early modern ivory and slave trades across the Indian Ocean, to the ways in which the availability of new consumer goods helped change work habits in both Europe and East Asia, and from the history of chewing gum to that of rare earth metals. The introductory essays for each chapter, the overall introduction and epilogue, and several of the essays have also been revised and updated.

The World That Trade Created continues to be a key resource for anyone teaching world history, world civilization, and the history of international trade.

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Making of Market Conventions

1. The Fujian Trade Diaspora

2. The Chinese Tribute System

3. Funny Money, Real Growth

4. When Asia Was the World Economy

5. Treating Good News as No News

6. Pearls in the Rubble: Rediscovering the Golden Age of Quanzhou, ca. 1000-1400

7. Aztec Traders

8. Primitive Accumulation: Brazilwood

9. A British Merchant in the Tropics

10. How the Other Half Traded

11. Deals and Ordeals: World Trade and Early Modern Legal Culture

12. Traveling Salesmen, Traveling Taxmen

13. Indian Ocean Commodity Circuit: How to Turn Cotton into Ivory

14. Going Non-native: Expense Accounts and the End of the Age of Merchant Courtiers

15. Empire on a Shoestring: British Adventurers and Indian Financiers in Calcutta, 1750-1850
    Chapter 2 Transport and Tactics

2.1 Human Ingenuity: Adapting to Natural Barriers, and Creating New Ones

2.2 Power-Driven Transport: New Time, New Space, Old Conflicts

2.3 Woods, Winds, Shipbuilding, and Shipping: Why China Didn't Rule the Waves

2.4 Better to Be Lucky Than Smart

2.5 Seats of Government and Their Stomachs: An Eighteenth-Century Tour

2.6 Pioneers of Dusty Rooms: Warehouses, Transatlantic Trade, and the Opening of the North American Frontier

2.7 People Patterns: Was the Real America Sichuan?

2.8 Winning Raffles

2.9 Trade, Disorder, and Progress: Creating Shanghai, 1840-1930

2.10 Out of One-Many

2.11 Guaranteed Profits and Half-Fulfilled Hopes: Railroad Building in British India

2.12 A Brief Trip Across the Centuries

Chapter 3 The Economic Culture of Drugs

3.1 Chocolate: From Coin to Commodity

3.2 Brewing Up a Storm

3.3 Mocha Is Not Chocolate

3.4 The Brew of Business: Coffee's Life Story

3.5 America and the Coffee Bean

3.6 Sweet Revolutions

3.7 Paying for Power: "Sin Taxes" and the Rise of the Modern State

3.8 How Opium Made the World Go 'Round

3.9 Tobacco: the Rise and Decline of a Magical Weed

3.10 Making Smoking Modern: From Pipes to Cigarettes in Egypt and Elsewhere

3.11 Chewing Is Good, Snorting Isn't: How Chemistry Turned a Good Thing Bad

Chapter 4 Transplanting

4.1 Unnatural Resources

4.2 Bouncing Around

4.3 Golden M…