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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.

The Birth of Plenty by William J. Bernstein

The Cash Nexus by Niall Ferguson

Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon

The Company by John Micklethwait

The History of Money by Jack Weatherford

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David S. Landes

The Long Twentieth Century by Giovanni Arrighi

The Power of Gold by Peter L. Bernstein

The Panic of 1907 by Robert F. Bruner

The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson

1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley

False Economy by Alan Beattie

Catastrophe by David Keys

Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson

Fool's Gold by Gillian Tett

The Myth of the Rational Market by Justin Fox

Manias, Panics, and Crashes by Charles P. Kindleberger

The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William J. Bernstein

The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin