A Splendid Exchange
How Trade Shaped the World
Published on 1. September 2012
488 pages
978-1-78239-074-9 (ISBN)
Description
A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. It travels from the sugar rush that brought the British to Jamaica in the seventeenth century to our current debates over globalization, from the silk route between China and Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly in spices in the sixteenth. Throughout, William Bernstein examines how our age-old dependency on trade has contributed to our planet's agricultural bounty, stimulated intellectual and industrial progress and made us both prosperous and vulnerable.
Reviews / Votes
A highly entertaining read. Bernstein's enthusiasm for his subject and impressive organisation of a wealth of material enable him to plot with pace and verve... man's trading history. -- Hugh Carnegy * Financial Times * Timely and readable... The strength of Mr Bernstein's book is the analytical rigour that overlays the rollicking history. * Economist * Superb... The chronological range of Bernstein's book is staggering... Graceful and insightful history with a delicate display of scholarship that conceals a vast erudition. -- Paul Kennedy * Foreign Affairs *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
5,75 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78239-074-9 (9781782390749)
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Person
William Bernstein is an American financial theorist and historian whose books include The Birth of Plenty, which was published in 2004 to critical acclaim. He lives in America.
Content
- Intro
- Author biography
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Introduction
- 1 Sumer
- 2 The Straits of Trade
- 3 Camels, Perfumes, and Prophets
- 4 The Baghdad-Canton Express
- 5 The Taste of Trade and the Captives of Trade
- 6 The Disease of Trade
- 7 Da Gama's Urge
- 8 A World Encompassed
- 9 The Coming of Corporations
- 10 Transplants
- 11 The Triumph and Tragedy of Free Trade
- 12 What Henry Bessemer Wrought
- 13 Collapse
- 14 The Battle of Seattle
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- List of Illustrations
