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| Introduction | |
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| The Making of Market Conventions | |
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| The Fujian Trade Diaspora | |
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| The Chinese Tribute System | |
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| Funny Money, Real Growth | |
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| When Asia Was the World Economy | |
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| Treating Good News as No News | |
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| Pearls in the Rubble: Rediscovering the Golden Age of Quanzhou, ca. 1000-1400 | |
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| Aztec Traders | |
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| Primitive Accumulation: Brazilwood | |
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| A British Merchant in the Tropics | |
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| How the Other Half Traded | |
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| Deals and Ordeals: World Trade and Early Modern Legal Culture | |
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| Traveling Salesmen, Traveling Taxmen | |
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| Going Nonnative: Expense Accounts and the End of the Age of Merchant Courtiers | |
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| Empire on a Shoestring: British Adventurers and Indian Financiers in Calcutta, 1750-1850 | |
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| The Tactics of Transport | |
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| Woods, Winds, Shipbuilding, and Shipping: Why China Didn't Rule the-Waves | |
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| Better to Be Lucky Than Smart | |
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| Seats of Government and Their Stomachs: An Eighteenth-Century Tour | |
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| Pioneers of Dusty Rooms: Warehouses, Transatlantic Trade, and the Opening of the North American Frontier | |
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| People Patterns: Was the Real America Sichuan? | |
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| Winning Raffles | |
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| Trade, Disorder, and Progress: Creating Shanghai, 1840-1930 | |
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| Out of One-Many | |
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| Guaranteed Profits and Half-Fulfilled Hopes: Railroad Building in British India | |
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| A Brief Trip Across the Centuries | |
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| The Economic Culture of Drugs | |
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| Chocolate: From Coin to Commodity | |
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| Brewing Up a Storm | |
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| Mocha Is Not Chocolate | |
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| The Brew of Business: Coffee's Life Story | |
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| America and the Coffee Bean | |
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| Sweet Revolutions | |
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| How Opium Made the World Go 'Round | |
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| Chewing Is Good, Snorting Isn't: How Chemistry Turned a Good Thing Bad | |
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| Transplanting: Commodities in World Trade | |
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| Unnatural Resources | |
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| Bouncing Around | |
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| Golden Misfortune: John Sutter in the Wilds of California | |
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| California Gold and the World | |
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| Beautiful Bugs | |
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| How to Turn Nothing into Something: Guano's Ephemeral Fortunes | |
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| As American as Sugar and Pineapples | |
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| How the Cows Ate the Cowboys | |
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| The Tie That Bound | |
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| The Good Earth? | |
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| One Potato, Two Potato | |
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| Cocoa and Coercion: Advances and Retreats for Free Labor in West African Agriculture | |
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| Trying to Get a Grip: Natural Rubber's Century of Ups and Downs | |
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| The Economics of Violence | |
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| The Logic of an Immoral Trade | |
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| As Rich as Potosi | |
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| The Freebooting Founders of England's Free Seas | |
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| The Luxurious Life of Robinson Crusoe | |
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| No Islands in the Storm: Or, How the Sino-British Tea Trade Deluged the Worlds of Pacific Islanders | |
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| The Violent Birth of Corporations | |
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| Buccaneers as Corporate Raiders | |
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| Looking for the Next Worst Thing: Emancipation, Indentures, and Colonial Plantations After Slavery | |
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| Bloody Ivory Tower | |
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| How Africa Resisted Imperialism: Ethiopia and the World Economy | |
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| Never Again: The Saga of the Rosenfelders | |
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| Making Modern Markets | |
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| Silver and Gold in Mexico and Brazil | |
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| Weighing the World: The Metric Revolution | |
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| From Court Bankers to Architects of the Modern World Market: The Rothschilds | |
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| Growing Global: International Grain Markets | |
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| How Time Got That Way | |
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| How the United States Joined the Big Leagues | |
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| Clubs, Casinos and Collapses: Sovereign Debt and Risk Management Since 1820 | |
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| Fresher Is Not Better | |
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| Packaging | |
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| Trademarks: What's in a Name? | |
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| Learning to Feel Unclean: A Global Marketing Tale | |
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| Things Go Better with Red, White, and Blue: How Coca-Cola Conquered Europe | |
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| Survival of the First | |
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| It Ain't Necessarily So | |
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| Location, Location, Location: How History Trumped Geography in Andorra and Panama | |
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| World Trade, Industrialization, and Deindustrialization | |
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| Sweet Industry: The First Factories | |
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| Fiber of Fortune: How Cotton Became the Fabric of the Industrial Age | |
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| Combing the World for Cotton | |
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| Killing the Golden Goose | |
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| Sweet Success | |
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| No Mill Is an Island | |
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| Feeding Silkworms, Spitting Out Growth | |
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| From Rocks-and Restrictions-to Riches: How Disadvantages Helped New England Industrialize Early | |
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| Sideways Breakthroughs and Stalled Transitions: Crooked Paths from Coal to Oil, 1859-2012 | |
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| American Oil | |
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| Running on Oil, Building on Sand | |
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| Minding the Store and Forgetting the Factory: U.S. "Fair Trade" Laws and the Rise of Offshore Manufacturing Since World War II | |
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| Epilogue: The World Economy in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |