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Few historical enquiries can tell us as much about the world we live in today as the story of the origins and development of world trade.A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad controversies surrounding it today. It travels from the sugar rush that brought the British to Jamaica in the seventeenth century to the firestorm over globalization today, from the silk route between China and Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly in spices in the sixteenth. Along the way, William Bernstein examines how our age-old dependency on trade has contributed to our planet.s agricultural bounty, stimulated intellectual and industrial progress, and made us both prosperous and vulnerable. «
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