1st Edition

Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present From Ancient Times to the Present

1304 Pages
by Routledge

Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade. Entry topics were selected on trade organizations, influential people, commodities, events that affected trade, trade routes, navigation, religion, communic

A: ; Abbasid Caliphate (750 – 1258); Advertising; Aegean Sea; Africa; Agora; Agriculture; Aircraft; Alexander the Great (356–323 b.c.e. ); Alexandria; Alphabet, Aramaic; Alphabet, Cyrillic; Alphabet, Greek; Alphabet, Latin; Alphabet, Phoenician; Alsace and Lorraine; Amazon River; Amber; Amber Routes; American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations; American Revolution; Amsterdam; Anglo-Dutch Wars; Animals; Appian Way; Arabs; Archaeology; Argentina; Arkwright, Richard (1732–1792); Armenians; Art; Association of Southeast Asiannations; Assyrian Empire; Astrolabe; Aswan High Dam; Athens, Ancient; Atlantic Trade; Automobiles; Aviation; Aztecs; B: ; Babylonian Empire; Bantu Migrations; Bardi House of Banking; Baroque; Barter; Batavia (Jakarta); Bell, Alexander Graham (1847–1922); Berbers; Berenice; Bioterrorism; Blackdeath; Black Sea; Bolshevism; Bourgeoisie; Boxer Rebellion; Brazil; Bribery; British Commonwealth; British East India Company; British Empire; British–South American Trade Relations; Buddhism; Bugis; Bush, George Herbert Walker (1924–); Byzantin Eempire; C: ; Cacao; Calcutta; Calicut; Capitalism; Caravans; Caribbean; Carnegie, Andrew (1835–1919); Carolingian Empire; Cartels; Cartography; Castles; Central Africa; China; Chinese Dynasties; Chinese-Japanese Trade; Chocolate; Cholera; Christianity; Cities; Climate; Clive, Robert (1725–1774); Coffee; Coinage; Cold War; Colonization; Columbian Exchange; Columbus, Christopher (1451–1506); Combination Acts; Comintern; Communication; Communism; Comparative Advantage; Compass; Competition; Computers; Confucius (551–479 b.c.e. ); Constantinople; Consumerism; Containment; Continental System; Cook, Captain James (1728–1779); Copper; Copyrights; Corn; Corn Laws; Corporations; Cotton; Cotton Gin; Council for Mutual Economic Assistance; Cowries; Crete; Crimean War (1854–1856); Crop Rotation; Cross-Staff; Crusades; Crystal Palace; Cuba; Cuneiform; Cyprus; D: ; Danube River; Dardanelles; Dark Ages; .../part contents

Biography

Northrup, Cynthia Clark; Bentley, Jerry H.; Eckes, Jr, Alfred E.; Manning, Patrick; Pomeranz, Kenneth; Topik, Steven