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Power and plenty : trade, war, and the world economy in the second millennium

International trade has shaped the modern world. This book examines the successive waves of globalization and 'deglobalization' that have occurred during the past thousand years, looking at the technological and political causes behind these long-term trends.
Print Book, English, ©2007
Princeton University Press, Princeton, (New Jersey), ©2007
XXVI, 619 p. ; 24 cm.
9780691118543, 9780691143279, 069111854X, 0691143277
732336377
Contenido: Geographical and historical background
The world economy at the turn of the first millennium
World trade 1000-1500 : the economic consequences of Genghis Khan
World trade 1500-1650 : old world trade and new world silver
World trade 1650-1780 : the age of mercantilism
Trade and the industrial revolution
World trade 1780-1914 : the great specialization
World trade 1914-39 : deglobalization
Reglobalization : the late twentieth century in historical perspective
Globalization at the dawn of the twenty-first century
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