A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today
William J. Bernstein
384 pages
A sweeping narrative history of world trade-from Sumer in 3000 BC to the firestorm over globalization today-that brilliantly explores trade's colorful and contentious past and provides fresh insights into social, political, cultural, and economic history, as well as a timely assessment of trade's future