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Contents Foreword by Kevin Reilly 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 Aztec Traders 1.7 Primitive Accumulation: Brazilwood 1.8 A British Merchant in the Tropics 1.9 How the Other Half Traded 1.10 Deals and Ordeals: World Trade and Early Modern Legal Culture 1.11 Traveling Salesmen, Traveling Taxmen 1.12 Going Non-Native: Expense Accounts and the End of the Age of Merchant Courtiers 1.13 Empire on a Shoestring: British Adventurers and Indian Financiers in Calcutta, 1750-1850 2. The Tactics of Transport 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, Trans-Atlantic 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 E Unum Pluribus 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 Mocca 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 How Opium Made the World Go "Round" 3.8 Chewing Is Good, Snorting Isn't: How Chemistry Turned a Good Thing Bad (Coca) 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 Beautiful Bugs 4.6 How to Turn Nothing into Something: Guano's Ephemeral Fortunes 4.7 Fur and Fashion in the Far East 4.8 Not Just Peanuts: One Crop's Career in Farm and Factory 4.9 As American as Sugar and Pineapples 4.10 Saved from Sugar Shock 4.11 How the Cows Ate the Cowboys 4.12 The Tie that Bound 4.13 The Good Earth? 4.14 One Potato, Two Potato 4.15 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 The Tropical Dutch: How the Burghers Became Slavers by Julia Topik 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 Never Again: The Saga of the Rosenfelders 6. Making Modern Markets 6.1 Silver Lining 6.2 Currency over Country? 6.3 Weighing the World: The Metric Revolution 6.4 Growing Global: International Grain Markets 6.5 How Time Got That Way 6.6 The Ghost of Maximilian 6.7 How the United States Joined the Big Leagues 6.8 Banking on Asia 6.9 Fresher Is Not Better 6.10 Packaging 6.11 Trademarks: What's in a Name? 6.12 Learning to Feel Unclean: A Global Marketing Tale 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 Where is Andorra? 7. World Trade, Industrialization, and De-Industrialization 7.1 Sweet Industry: The First Factories 7.2 Fiber of Fortune: How Cotton Became the Fabric of the Industrial Age 7.3 Combing the World for Cotton 7.4 Killing the Golden Goose 7.5 A Triangular Trade in Ideas: Early Modern Europe, China, and Japan 7.6 Sweet Success 7.7 Lighting the Night and Darkening the Day by Dennis Kortheuer 7.8 No Mill Is an Island 7.9 Feeding Silkworms, Spitting Out Growth 7.10 From Rocks-and Restrictions-to Riches: How Disadvantages Helped New England Industrialize Early 7.11 American Oil 7.12 Running on Oil, Building on Sand Epilogue Bibliography Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Commerce -- History.
Commerce -- Social aspects -- History.
Culture -- History.
Industrialization -- Social aspects -- History.
International economic relations -- History.
Economic history.