"The Global Economy - a Concise History traces the history of global economy over the past thousand years. In doing so, it explores all the main waves of globalization, from the trade revolution of the Middle Ages, to the Great and Little Divergence between the West and the East…
"The Global Economy - a Concise History traces the history of global economy over the past thousand years. In doing so, it explores all the main waves of globalization, from the trade revolution of the Middle Ages, to the Great and Little Divergence between the West and the East…
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The making of market conventions -- Transport and tactics -- The economic culture of drugs -- Transplanting -- The economics of violence -- Making modern markets -- World trade, industrialization, and deindustrialization -- Manufacturing since …
"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 globaliza…
"The World That Trade Created" brings to lief the history of trade and its actors. Covering over seven hundred years of history, this book 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 W…
The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated ' by both laypeople and Marxist historians ' with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th century Britain. Jairus Banaji's new work reaches back centuries and traverses vast dist…
The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated ' by both laypeople and Marxist historians ' with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th century Britain. Jairus Banaji's new work reaches back centuries and traverses vast dist…
