A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the WorldGrove/Atlantic, Inc., 14 mei 2009 - 496 pagina's A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization. How did trade evolve to the point where we don’t think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world? In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein, bestselling author of The Birth of Plenty, traces the story of global commerce from its prehistoric origins to the myriad controversies surrounding it today. Journey from ancient sailing ships carrying silk from China to Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly on spices in the sixteenth; from the American trade battles of the early twentieth century to the modern era of televisions from Taiwan, lettuce from Mexico, and T-shirts from China. Bernstein conveys trade and globalization not in political terms, but rather as an ever-evolving historical constant, like war or religion, that will continue to foster the growth of intellectual capital, shrink the world, and propel the trajectory of the human species. “[An] entertaining and greatly enlightening book.” —The New York Times “A work of which Adam Smith and Max Weber would have approved.” —Foreign Affairs “[Weaves] skillfully between rollicking adventures and scholarship.” —Pietra Rivoli, author of The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy |
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World Trade System Third Millennium BC 25 | |
Ancient Canals at Suez 37 | |
Winter Monsoon Winds and Summer Monsoon Winds 39 | |
Incense Lands and Routes 63 | |
The World of Medieval Trade 80 | |
AD 540800 137 | |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Africa American ancient Arab Arabia arrived Asia Asian Bab el Mandeb Battuta became Black Death British camel Canal Canton Cape capital cargo century China Chinese city’s cloves coast Cobden coffee commerce Company Corn Law cotton decades disease Dutch early East economic Egypt EIC’s Empire England English Europe European exports farmers fleet foreign free trade Gama Gama’s Genoese global gold grain Hellespont historian History Holland Hormuz hundred Ibid Ibn Battuta import India Indian Ocean Islam labor land later Malacca Mamluk maritime markets medieval Mediterranean merchants miles million modern Mongols monopoly monsoon Muslim nations nutmeg opium pepper percent plague political population port Portugal Portuguese Prester John protectionism Red Sea route sail ships silk silver slaves Spain Spanish Spice Islands spice trade strait sugar sultan tariffs thousand tion today’s Tomé Pires University Press Venetian vessels voyage wealth western world trade zamorin