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Historical exploration of diverse cultural trade dynamics.
"Cross-Cultural Trade in World History" offers a rich dive into the past, showing how trade shaped interactions among varied civilizations. It’s perfect for anyone with a keen interest in history, economics, or anthropology. As you navigate through the beginnings of trade to the onset of commercial revolutions, this book will reveal the interconnectedness of the ancient world in a fascinating scholarly manner. You'll appreciate how exchange influenced cultures, politics, and economies worldwide, and you may find yourself looking at global trade with new eyes.
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ISBN: 9780521269315
Authors:
Curtin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (NY)
Date of Publication: 1984-05-25
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.74
(rated by 47 readers)
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A single theme is pursued in this book - the trade between peoples of differing cultures through world history. Extending from the ancient world to the coming of the commercial revolution, Professor Curtin's discussion encompasses a broad and diverse group of trading relationships. Drawing on insights from economic history and anthropology, Professor Curtin has attempted to move beyond a Europe-centred view of history, to one that can help us understand the entire range of societies in the human past. Examples have been chosen that illustrate the greatest variety of trading relationships between cultures. The opening chapters look at Africa, while subsequent chapters treat the ancient world, the Mediterranean trade with China, the Asian trade in the east, and European entry into the trade with maritime Asia, the Armenian trade carriers of the seventeenth century, and the North American fur trade. Wide-ranging in its concern and the fruit of exhaustive research, the book is nevertheless written so as to be accessible and stimulating to the specialist and the student alike.
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Historical exploration of diverse cultural trade dynamics.
"Cross-Cultural Trade in World History" offers a rich dive into the past, showing how trade shaped interactions among varied civilizations. It’s perfect for anyone with a keen interest in history, economics, or anthropology. As you navigate through the beginnings of trade to the onset of commercial revolutions, this book will reveal the interconnectedness of the ancient world in a fascinating scholarly manner. You'll appreciate how exchange influenced cultures, politics, and economies worldwide, and you may find yourself looking at global trade with new eyes.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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