The World That Trade Created Author: Ken Pomeranz/Steve Topik Publisher: Shaanxi Normal University Press

Introduction

Trade often brings unpredictable consequences to globalization and commoditization. The development, mutation, and new concept revolution of many major historical events are related to trade. Trade connects people of different nationalities and civilizations around the world. Trade promotes globalization and changes the natural and social worlds everywhere. To some extent, it is trade that has created the world structure today.

This book tells the rise and fall of world economic creation from seven themes, including the formation of market rules, the conceptual revolution initiated by means of transportation, the economic culture of addictive foods, and the economics of violence, as well as the serious problems that people in the 21st century must face after five hundred years of globalization.

This book provides us with a complete worldview based on the global trade system since 1400. The book provides insightful answers to questions such as when merchants are most efficient in waging war, how trade turns guano into gold, why the Ming Dynasty, which had the largest ships, failed to win maritime hegemony, and how Wall Street thwarted the United States' financial hegemony.

If we are not just following the trend and shouting slogans about globalization, we need a more complex and historically inclusive worldview to re-understand globalization. Professor Pomeranz's book cannot and should not be missed!

About the Author

Kenneth Pomeranz

Professor at the University of California, Irvine, is a representative of the influential "California School". He has been committed to the study of China and the modern world economic development for many years.

In 1994, he won the Fairbank Award for the best book in East Asian studies for his book The Making of the Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in North China, 1853-1937. The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy, published in 2002, sparked a major debate in the academic circles of the East and the West, and won the American Historical Association's Fairbank Award (Economic History) and the World History Association's Best Book Award.

He is good at using vivid writing and stories to express his academic research results. In recent years, these fascinating articles have been published in business magazines such as World Trade Magazine and Business Weekly. The conclusions of his articles are often beyond the readers' expectations.

Steven Topik

Professor of the University of California, Irvine, specializes in Latin American history and has unique insights into the globalization process of addictive foods such as coffee. He has published many monographs, including Trade and Gunboats: America and Brazil in the Age of Empire and The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America , 1500-1989 . The combination of his expertise with Professor Pomeranz in Chinese and Asian studies provides a broad perspective for this book.