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.
Author(s): Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik
Edition: 4
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2018
Language: English
Tags: Commerce: History, Commerce: Social Aspects: History, Culture: History
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Making of Market Conventions
1.1 The Fujian Trade Diaspora
1.2 The Chinese Tribute System
1.3 Funny Money, Real Growth
1.4 When Asia Was the World Economy
1.5 Treating Good News as No News
1.6 Pearls in the Rubble: Rediscovering the Golden Age of Quanzhou, ca.1000–1400
1.7 Aztec Traders
1.8 Primitive Accumulation: Brazilwood
1.9 A British Merchant in the Tropics
1.10 How the Other Half Traded
1.11 Deals and Ordeals: World Trade and Early Modern Legal Culture
1.12 Traveling Salesmen, Traveling Taxmen
1.13 Indian Ocean Commodity Circuit: How to Turn Cotton into Ivory
1.14 Going Nonnative: Expense Accounts and the End of the Age of Merchant Courtiers
1.15 Empire on a Shoestring: British Adventurers and Indian Financiers in Calcutta, 1750–1850
2 Transport and Tactics
Natural Limits
Human Ingenuity: Adapting to Natural Barriers, and Creating New Ones
Power-Driven Transport: New Time, New Space, Old Conflicts
2.1 Woods, Winds, Shipbuilding, and Shipping: Why China Didn’t Rule the Waves
2.2 Better to Be Lucky Than Smart
2.3 Seats of Government and Their Stomachs: An Eighteenth-Century Tour
2.4 Pioneers of Dusty Rooms: Warehouses, Transatlantic Trade, and the Opening of the North American Frontier
2.5 People Patterns: Was the Real America Sichuan?
2.6 Winning Raffles
2.7 Trade, Disorder, and Progress: Creating Shanghai, 1840–1930
2.8 Out of One—Many
2.9 Guaranteed Profits and Half-Fulfilled Hopes: Railroad Building in British India
2.10 A Brief Trip Across the Centuries
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
4 Transplanting
Commodities in World Trade
4.1 Unnatural Resources
4.2 Bouncing Around
4.3 Golden Misfortune: John Sutter in the Wilds of California
4.4 California Gold and the World
4.5 El Dorado or Wild Coast? How a Remote Place Was Washed by the Tides of World History
4.6 Beautiful Bugs
4.7 How to Turn Nothing into Something: Guano’s Ephemeral Fortunes
4.8 As American as Sugar and Pineapples
4.9 How the Cows Ate the Cowboys
4.10 The Tie That Bound
4.11 The Good Earth?
4.12 One Potato, Two Potato
4.13 Cocoa and Coercion: Advances and Retreats for Free Labor in West African Agriculture
4.14 Trying to Get a Grip: Natural Rubber’s Century of Ups and Downs
5 The Economics of Violence
5.1 The Logic of an Immoral Trade
5.2 As Rich as Potosí
5.3 The Freebooting Founders of England’s Free Seas
5.4 Adventure, Trade, Piracy: Anthony Shirley and Pedro Teixeira, Two Early Modern Travelers
Introduction
Anthony Shirley
Pedro Teixeira
5.5 The Luxurious Life of Robinson Crusoe
5.6 No Islands in the Storm: Or, How the Sino-British Tea Trade Deluged the Worlds of Pacific Islanders
5.7 The Violent Birth of Corporations
5.8 Buccaneers as Corporate Raiders
5.9 Looking for the Next Worst Thing: Emancipation, Indentures, and Colonial Plantations After Slavery
5.10 Bloody Ivory Tower by Julia Topik
5.11 How Africa Resisted Imperialism: Ethiopia and the World Economy
5.12 Never Again: The Saga of the Rosenfelders
6 Making Modern Markets
6.1 Silver and Gold in Mexico and Brazil
6.2 Weighing the World: The Metric Revolution
6.3 From Court Bankers to Architects of the Modern World Market: The Rothschilds
6.4 Grain Goes Global—and the Globe Makes “Grain”
6.5 How Time Got That Way
6.6 How the United States Joined the Big Leagues
6.7 Clubs, Casinos, and Collapses: Sovereign Debt and Risk Management Since 1820
6.8 Fresher Is Not Better
6.9 Packaging
6.10 Trademarks: What’s in a Name?
6.11 Learning to Feel Unclean: A Global Marketing Tale
6.12 Chewing on Global History: Wrigley, Adams, and the Yucatán
6.13 Things Go Better with Red, White, and Blue: How Coca-Cola Conquered Europe
6.14 Survival of the First
6.15 It Ain’t Necessarily So
6.16 Location, Location, Location: How History Trumped Geography in Andorra and Panama
Andorra
Panama
7 World Trade, Industrialization, and Deindustrialization
World Trade and Early Industrialization
World Trade and the Spread of Industrialism: Two Sets of Issues
Trade, the Global Division of Labor, and Prospects for Industrialization
Technology
7.1 Sweet Industry: The First Factories
7.2 Why We Work So Hard: The Industrious Revolution and the Early Modern World
7.3 Fiber of Fortune: How Cotton Became the Fabric of the Industrial Age
7.4 Combing the World for Cotton
7.5 Killing the Golden Goose
7.6 Sweet Success
7.7 No Mill Is an Island
7.8 Feeding Silkworms, Spitting Out Growth
7.9 From Rocks—and Restrictions—to Riches: How Disadvantages Helped New England Industrialize Early
7.10 Sideways Breakthroughs and Stalled Transitions: Crooked Paths from Coal to Oil, 1859–2012
7.11 American Oil
7.12 Running on Oil, Building on Sand
7.13 Not So Rare, But Pretty Strange: How Rare Earth Metals Became a Chinese “Monopoly”
7.14 Minding the Store and Forgetting the Factory: U.S. “Fair Trade” Laws and the Rise of Offshore Manufacturing Since ...
Epilogue: The World Economy in the Twenty-First Century
Selected Bibliography
Index
Back Cover
