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

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Making of Market Conventions -- 1.1 The Fujian Trade Diaspora -- 1.2 The Chinese Tribute System -- 1.3 Funny Money, Real Growth -- 1.4 When Asia Was the World Economy -- 1.5 Treating Good News as No News -- 1.6 Pearls in the Rubble: Rediscovering the Golden Age of Quanzhou, ca.1000-1400 -- 1.7 Aztec Traders -- 1.8 Primitive Accumulation: Brazilwood -- 1.9 A British Merchant in the Tropics -- 1.10 How the Other Half Traded -- 1.11 Deals and Ordeals: World Trade and Early Modern Legal Culture -- 1.12 Traveling Salesmen, Traveling Taxmen -- 1.13 Indian Ocean Commodity Circuit: How to Turn Cotton into Ivory -- 1.14 Going Nonnative: Expense Accounts and the End of the Age of Merchant Courtiers -- 1.15 Empire on a Shoestring: British Adventurers and Indian Financiers in Calcutta, 1750-1850 -- 2 Transport and Tactics -- Natural Limits -- Human Ingenuity: Adapting to Natural Barriers, and Creating New Ones -- Power-Driven Transport: New Time, New Space, Old Conflicts -- 2.1 Woods, Winds, Shipbuilding, and Shipping: Why China Didn't Rule the Waves -- 2.2 Better to Be Lucky Than Smart -- 2.3 Seats of Government and Their Stomachs: An Eighteenth-Century Tour -- 2.4 Pioneers of Dusty Rooms: Warehouses, Transatlantic Trade, and the Opening of the North American Frontier -- 2.5 People Patterns: Was the Real America Sichuan? -- 2.6 Winning Raffles -- 2.7 Trade, Disorder, and Progress: Creating Shanghai, 1840-1930 -- 2.8 Out of One-Many -- 2.9 Guaranteed Profits and Half-Fulfilled Hopes: Railroad Building in British India -- 2.10 A Brief Trip Across the Centuries -- 3 The Economic Culture of Drugs -- 3.1 Chocolate: From Coin to Commodity -- 3.2 Brewing Up a Storm -- 3.3 Mocha Is Not Chocolate