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Tables of Contents for The World That Trade Created
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
Kevin Reilly
Introduction
xi
 
The Making of Market Conventions
3
41
The Fujian Trade Diaspora
9
3
The Chinese Tribute System
12
2
Funny Money, Real Growth
14
2
When Asia Was the World Economy
16
2
Treating Good News as No News
18
3
Aztec Traders
21
2
Primitive Accumulation: Brazilwood
23
3
A British Merchant in the Tropics
26
2
How the Other Half Traded
28
3
Deals and Ordeals: World Trade and Early Modern Legal Culture
31
2
Traveling Salesmen, Traveling Taxmen
33
3
Going Non-Native: Expense Accounts and the End of the Age of Merchant Courtiers
36
2
Empire on a Shoestring: British Adventurers and Indian Financiers in Calcutta, 1750-1850
38
3
What Did They Know and When Did They Know It? The Growth of Knowledge and East-West Trade, 1500-1800
41
3
The Tractics of Transport
44
33
Woods, Winds, Shipbuilding, and Shipping: Why China Didn't Rule the Waves
51
2
Better to Be Lucky than Smart
53
2
Seats of Government and Their Stomachs: An Eighteenth-Century Tour
55
2
Pioneers of Dusty Rooms: Warehouses, Trans-Atlantic Trade, and the Opening of the North American Frontier
57
2
People Patterns: Was the Real America Sichuan?
59
3
Winning Raffles
62
4
Scandalous Panama: Or, How the Plan to Get Rich with the Big Ditch Had a Hitch
66
2
E Unum Pluribus
68
3
Guaranteed Profits and Half-Fulfilled Hopes: Railroad Building in British India
71
2
Trade Woes: The Yankees Strike Out
73
4
The Economic Culture of Drugs
77
32
Chocolate: From Coin to Commodity
82
2
Brewing Up a Storm
84
2
Mocca Is Not Chocolate
86
3
The Brew of Business: Coffee's Life Story
89
3
America and the Coffee Bean
92
2
Sweet Revolutions
94
2
Where There's Smoke
96
3
Will Swaim
Drug Wars
99
3
Will Swaim
How Opium Made the World Go ``Round''
102
3
Chewing Is Good, Snorting Isn't: How Chemistry Turned a Good Thing Bad (Coca)
105
4
Transplanting: Commodities in World Trade
109
38
Unnatural Resources
116
3
Bouncing Around
119
2
California Gold and the World
121
3
Beautiful Bugs
124
2
How to Turn Nothing into Something: Guano's Ephemeral Fortunes
126
3
Not Just Peanuts: One Crop's Career in Farm and Factory
129
2
As American as Sugar and Pineapples
131
2
Saved from Sugar Shock
133
3
How the Cows Ate the Cowboys
136
2
The Tie that Bound
138
2
The Good Earth?
140
3
One Potato, Two Potato
143
4
The Economics of Violence
147
32
The Logic of an Immoral Trade
154
2
As Rich as Potosi
156
2
The Freebooting Founders of England's Free Seas
158
3
No Islands in the Storm: Or, How the Sino-British Tea Trade Deluged the Worlds of Pacific Islanders
161
2
The Violent Birth of Corporations
163
3
Buccaneers as Corporate Raiders
166
2
The Bloody Decades
168
3
Commercial Warfare
171
2
Man O' War
173
3
Never Again: The Saga of the Rosenfelders
176
3
Making Modern Markets
179
35
Silver Lining
183
3
Currency over Country?
186
1
Weighing the World: The Metric Revolution
187
3
Growing Global: International Grain Markets
190
2
How Time Got That Way
192
2
The Ghost of Maximilian
194
2
How the United States Joined the Big Leagues
196
2
Banking on Asia
198
3
Fresher Is Not Better
201
2
Advertising the World
203
3
Will Swaim
Trademarks: What's in a Name?
206
3
Survival of the First
209
2
It Ain't Necessarily So
211
3
World Trade, Industrialization, and De-Industrialization
214
27
Sweet Industry: The First Factories
223
2
Fiber of Fortune: How Cotton Became the Fabric of the Industrial Age
225
3
Killing the Golden Goose
228
3
Sweet Success
231
2
No Mill Is an Island
233
2
Feeding Silkworms, Spitting Out Growth
235
2
From Rocks---and Restrictions---to Riches: How Disadvantages Helped New England Industrialize Early
237
4
Bibliography
241
6
Index
247