Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present
De som köpt den här boken har ofta också köpt The 48 Laws of Power av Robert Greene (häftad).
Köp båda 2 för 1048 krIn this collection of short essays, Pomeranz and Topik masterfully depict the story of the creation of the world economy. Without using academic jargon, they explain how trade with commodities, drugs, animals, people and ideas moved among continents and transformed the world. Manel Oll, associate tenure professor in Modern and contemporary Chinese history and culture, Director of the Master in Chinese Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain How invisible networks of trade ultimately came to compel producers, merchants, and even whole societies to adapt to the networks' needs as they grew is a fascinating story, and one just as important for understanding the world as developments in politics or culture are. I know of no other book that introduces trade networks so well. It is an ideal text for survey courses. Roland Spickermann - Chair, Dept. of History, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USA
Kenneth Pomeranz is University Professor in History at the University of Chicago, USA, and was President of the American Historical Association in 2013-14. Steven Topik is Professor of History at UC Irvine, USA, where he has worked since 1984. Previously he taught at Brazil s Universidade Federal Fluminense and Colgate University.
Introduction Chapter 1 The Making of Market Conventions The Fujian Trade Diaspora The Chinese Tribute System Funny Money, Real Growth When Asia Was the World Economy Treating Good News as No News Pearls in the Rubble: Rediscovering the Golden Age of Quanzhou, ca. 10001400 Aztec Traders Primitive Accumulation: Brazilwood A British Merchant in the Tropics How the Other Half Traded Deals and Ordeals: World Trade and Early Modern Legal Culture Traveling Salesmen, Traveling Taxmen Indian Ocean Commodity Circuit: How to Turn Cotton into Ivory Going Non-native: Expense Accounts and the End of the Age of Merchant Courtiers Empire on a Shoestring: British Adventurers and Indian Financiers in Calcutta, 17501850 Chapter 2 Transport and Tactics 2.1 Human Ingenuity: Adapting to Natural Barriers, and Creating New Ones 2.2 Power-Driven Transport: New Time, New Space, Old Conflicts 2.3 Woods, Winds, Shipbuilding, and Shipping: Why China Didnt Rule the Waves 2.4 Better to Be Lucky Than Smart 2.5 Seats of Government and Their Stomachs: An Eighteenth-Century Tour 2.6 Pioneers of Dusty Rooms: Warehouses, Transatlantic Trade, and the Opening of the North American Frontier 2.7 People Patterns: Was the Real America Sichuan? 2.8 Winning Raffles 2.9 Trade, Disorder, and Progress: Creating Shanghai, 18401930 2.10 Out of OneMany 2.11 Guaranteed Profits and Half-Fulfilled Hopes: Railroad Building in British India 2.12 A Brief Trip Across the Centuries Chapter 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: Coffees 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 Isnt: How Chemistry Turned a Good Thing Bad Chapter 4 Transplanting 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: Guanos 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 Rubbers Century of Ups and Downs Chapter 5 The Economics of Violence 5.1 The Logic of an Immoral Trade 5.2 As Rich as Potos 5.3 The Freebooting Founders of England's Free Seas 5.4 Adventure, Trade, Piracy: Anthony Shirley and Pedro Teixeira, Two Early Modern Travelers 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 5.11 How Africa Resisted Imperialism: Ethiopia and the World Economy 5.12 Never Again: The Saga of the Rosenfelders Chapter 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 Growing Global: International Grain Markets 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: Whats in a Name?