The World that Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400-the Present
- ISBN-10
- 0765602490
- ISBN-13
- 9780765602497
- Series
- The World that Trade Created
- Category
- Business & Economics / Economic History
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- M.E. Sharpe
- Authors
- Steven Topik, Kenneth Pomeranz
Description
AUTHORS POMERANZ AND TOPIK OFFER UNIQUE and entertaining historical perspectives on the world economy, showing that much of twentieth-century "globalization" goes back centuries. In more than 70 brief, lively vignettes (most of them 3 to 5 pages long), they explore:
-- the world economy before European domination;
-- the social, cultural, and ecological effects of sudden global demand for local products (from rubber, coffee, silk, and silver to guano and birds' nests);
-- the origins of international standards and practices, such as those for time zones and the typewriter keyboard, and the logic behind the practices they replaced;
-- the growth of global finance and the changing forms of money (from cocoa beans to the gold standard);
-- how ideas of the social place and uses of commodities such as tea, potatoes, and peanuts changed as they entered new societies -- and sometimes transformed those societies;
-- the nature and consequences of industrialization and deindustrialization;
-- the spread of revolutions in transportation and communications;
-- religions' effects on world commerce;
-- the rise of a global drug trade in such stimulants as opium, cocaine, tobacco, and even sugar;
-- the uses of violent means, including piracy and slavery, in pursuit of profit; and
-- the consequences and nature of empire-building and nationalism.
Easily accessible to the general reader, these articles by two well-respected historians nonetheless touch on complex historical and contemporary issues. They are grouped in thematic chapters, each with an introduction drawing out some of the deeper implications for understanding how today's world economy came int
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