The Origins of Globalization: World Trade in the Making of the Global Economy, 1500-1800

by Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden

Book Overview

For better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this process of globalization begin, and what effects did it have on economies and societies? Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden argue that the networks of trade established after the voyages of Columbus and Da Gama of the late fifteenth century had transformative effects inaugurating the first era of globalization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108447139
• ISBN13: 9781108447133
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.9"