The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy - 1400 to the Present by Steven Topik, Kenneth Pomeranz, Kenneth Pomeranz
The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy - 1400 to the Present

Steven Topik, Kenneth Pomeranz, Kenneth Pomeranz

The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy - 1400 to the Present

Steven Topik, Kenneth Pomeranz, Kenneth Pomeranz

304 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

fiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
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Why are railroad tracks separated by the same four feet, eight inches as ancient Roman roads? How did 19th-century Europeans turn mountains of bird excrement from Peru into mountains of gold? Where has most of the world's oil come from in the 20th...

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