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Steven Topik is a historian at the University of California, Irvine, known for his research on Latin American and global economic history.
Known for: The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present
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The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present
This book explores how global trade shaped societies and cultures from 1400 to the present. Through a series of concise, engaging essays, Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik examine the social and cultural dimensions of world economic history, revealing how commerce connected distant regions and influenced everyday life. The authors highlight the interplay between local practices and global networks, offering insights into the evolution of the modern world economy.
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Early Global Exchanges (1400–1600)
In these early centuries, global trade began to take recognizable shape as the great voyages of discovery opened new routes of connection. Prior to the sixteenth century, economic life was highly regional, but long-distance networks already linked parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe through spice rout...
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The Role of Silver and Global Monetary Flows
Few commodities tell the story of early modern globalization as vividly as silver. Our book traces how the mines of Potosí in present-day Bolivia and Zacatecas in Mexico produced vast quantities of silver that flowed outward through Spanish fleets, crossing both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The ...
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Steven Topik is a historian at the University of California, Irvine, known for his research on Latin American and global economic history.
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