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A sweeping narrative history of world
trade8212frm Sumer in 3000 BC to the
firestorm over globalization today8212tht
brilliantly explores trade8217scolorful and
contentious past and provides fresh insights
into social, political, cultural, and economic
history, as well as a timely assessment of
trade8217sfuture.Adam Smith wrote that man has
an intrinsic 8220prpensity to truck, barter,
and exchange one thing for another.8221But how
did trade evolve to the point where we
don8217tthink twice about biting into an apple
from the other side of the world?In A Splendid
Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the
extraordinary story of global commerce from its
prehistoric origins to the myriad controversies
surrounding it today. He transports readers from
ancient sailing ships that brought the silk trade
from China to Rome in the second century to the
rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly in
spices in the sixteenth from the rush for sugar
that brought the British to Jamaica in 1655 to
the American trade battles of the early
twentieth century from key innovations such
as steam, steel, and refrigeration to the modern
era of televisions from Taiwan, lettuce from
Mexico, and T-shirts from China.Along the way,
Bernstein examines how our age-old dependency on
trade has contributed to our planet8217sagricult
ural bounty, stimulated intellectual progress,
and made us both prosperous and vulnerable.
Although the impulse to trade often takes a
backseat to xenophobia and war, Bernstein
concludes that trade is ultimately a force for
good among nations, and he argues that societies
are far more successful and stable when they are
involved in vigorous trade with their
neighbors.Lively, authoritative, and astonishing
in scope, A Splendid Exchange is a riveting
narrative that views trade and globalization not
in political terms, but rather as an evolutionary
process as old as war and religion8212ahistoric
al constant8212tht will continue to foster the
growth of intellectual capital, shrink the
world, and propel the trajectory of the human
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