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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Trade began in Mesopotamia through early agriculture and the materials for simple tools.
Chapter 3: Camels transformed Asian trade, and Muslim Arabs forged trade links with China.
Chapter 4: Spices grew wildly popular, while slavery and disease were worsened by trade.
Chapter 5: Spanish and Portuguese explorers vastly extended the known world and its trade routes.
Chapter 6: The seventeenth century marked the dawn of worldwide trade, with Holland as the center of commerce.
Chapter 7: Though England was once ruled by mercantilism, free trade eventually won out in time.
Chapter 8: Steamships and refrigeration transformed global and transcontinental commerce.
Chapter 9: The Great Depression ultimately stemmed from protectionist measures that severely restricted free trade.
Chapter 10: The United States embraced free trade in the postwar era, but globalization has also produced dangerous inequality.
Description
A Splendid Exchange (2008) offers a comprehensive look at the events and inventions that enabled free trade on a global scale. It also shows how the fight between isolationism, or protectionism, and free trade had been going on long before the term “globalization” was ever coined. History shows us how natural and beneficial trade is between nations but reveals its dark and dangerous side as well.
Who Should Listen
- Economists and historians
- People curious about the roots of globalization
- Free-market adherents and trade protectionists