Uses brief case studies connected to seven central topics to discuss the history and creation of the world economy.
In a series of brief vignettes the authors bring to life international trade and its actors, and also demonstrate that economic activity cannot be divorced from social and cultural contexts.
The World That Trade Created: 1400 to the Present
Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik. The chapters are organized by subjects and chronologically. Thus,we begin withearly modern markets andthe institutions and conventions necessary ...
The World that Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400-the Present
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...