Steven Topik

Patrick Manning

Kenneth Pomeranz

Cynthia Clark Northrup

Jerry H. Bentley

Alfred E. Eckes, Jr

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

From Ancient Times to the Present

Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

William Gervase Clarence-Smith

Coffee beans grown in Brazil, Colombia, Vietnam, or one of the other hundred producing lands on five continents remain a palpable and long-standing manifestation of globalization. For five hundred years coffee has been grown in tropical countries for consumption in temperate regions. This 2003 volume brings together scholars from nine countries who study coffee markets and societies over the last five centuries in fourteen countries on four continents and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with a special emphasis on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The chapters analyse the creation and function of commodity, labour, and financial markets; the role of race, ethnicity, gender, and class in the formation of coffee societies; the interaction between technology and ecology; and the impact of colonial powers, nationalist regimes, and the forces of the world economy in the forging of economic development and political democracy.

The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500–1989

Zephyr Frank

Carlos Marichal

DIVClaims that the history of commodities in Latin America (or anywhere) cannot be understood without considering their global context, often from a long-term perspective./div

Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000

From Silver to Cocaine

Steven Topik

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