A SPLENDID EXCHANGE
How Trade Shaped the World
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A series of interwoven narratives elucidates the author's deceptively simple contention that trade is an intrinsic human impulse—one that has profoundly affected the trajectory of human history.
Chapters examine the origins of world trade, the rise of trade in the Indian Ocean, how this trade system was first shattered by Portuguese explorers who rounded the Cape of Good Hope (and then capitalized upon by the Dutch and others), and today’s global trade in light of its underlying modern economic doctrines. Twenty-three maps and 40 illustrations put routes in sharp relief and faces to major figures’ stories.
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| Copyright | 2009 |
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| Publisher | Grove Press |
| Pages | 467 |
| Grade | 10 and up |
| ISBN | 9780802144164 |