Encyclopedia of world trade : from ancient times to the present /
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Edition: | [Enhanced Credo edition]. |
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Imprint: | Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference, 2005. Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2014. |
Description: | 1 online resource (509 entries) : 111 images |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11304664 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: World Trade in History
- A-Z Entries
- A
- Abbasid Caliphate (750 / 1258)
- Advertising
- Aegean Sea
- Africa
- Agora
- Agriculture
- Aircraft
- Alexander the Great (356 / 323 B.C.E.)
- Alexandria
- Alphabet, Aramaic
- Alphabet, Cyrillic
- Alphabet, Greek
- Alphabet, Latin
- Alphabet, Phoenician
- Alsace and Lorraine
- Amazon River
- Amber
- Amber Routes
- American Federation of Labor / Congress of Industrial Organizations
- American Revolution
- Amsterdam
- Anglo-Dutch Wars
- Animals
- Appian Way
- Arabs
- Archaeology
- Argentina
- Arkwright, Richard (1732 / 1792)
- Armenians
- Art
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- Assyrian Empire
- Astrolabe
- Aswan High Dam
- Athens, Ancient
- Atlantic Trade
- Automobiles
- Aviation
- Aztecs
- B
- Babylonian Empire
- Balance of Trade
- Bantu Migrations
- Bardi House of Banking
- Baroque
- Barter
- Batavia (Jakarta)
- Bell, Alexander Graham (1847 / 1922)
- Berbers
- Berenice
- Bioterrorism
- Black Death
- Black Sea
- Bolshevism
- Bourgeoisie
- Boxer Rebellion
- Brazil
- Bribery
- British Commonwealth
- British East India Company
- British Empire
- British / South American Trade Relations
- Buddhism
- Bugis
- Byzantine Empire
- C
- Cacao
- Calicut
- Capitalism
- Caravans
- Caribbean
- Carnegie, Andrew (1835 / 1919)
- Carolingian Empire
- Cartels
- Cartography
- Castles
- Central Africa
- China
- Chinese Dynasties
- Chinese-Japanese Trade
- Chocolate
- Cholera
- Christianity
- Cities
- Climate
- Climate Change
- Clive, Robert (1725 / 1774)
- Coffee
- Coinage
- Cold War
- Colonization
- Columbian Exchange
- Columbus, Chrisopher (1451 / 1506)
- Combination Acts (1799, 1800)
- Comintern
- Communication
- Communism
- Comparative Advantage
- Compass
- Competition
- Computers
- Confucius (551 / 479 B.C.E.)
- Constantinople (Byzantium, Istanbul)
- Consumerism
- Containment
- Continental System
- Cook, James (1728 / 1779).
- Copper
- Copyright
- Corn
- Corn Laws
- Corporations
- Cotton
- Cotton Gin
- Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
- Cowries
- Crete
- Crimean War (1854 / 1856)
- Crop Rotation
- Cross-Staff
- Crusades
- Crystal Palace
- Cuba
- Cuneiform
- Cyprus
- D
- Danube River
- Dardanelles
- Dark Ages
- Delian League
- Department Stores
- Diamonds
- Diasporas
- Dirhams
- Disease
- Disputes and Arbitration, International
- Donkey
- Drake, Francis (1540 / 1596)
- Drugs
- Dutch
- Dyula
- E
- East Asia
- Economic Consequences of the Peace, The (1919)
- Economics, Classical
- Edison, Thomas Alva (1847 / 1931)
- Egypt
- Egypt, Ancient
- Electricity
- Elizabeth I (1533 / 1603)
- Embargoes
- Empire Building
- Energy
- Engels, Friedrich (1820 / 1895)
- England's Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664)
- Entertainment
- Etruscans
- European / African Trade
- European / Asian Trade
- European Trade, Intracontinental
- European Union
- Exchange Rates
- Exploration and Trade
- Extraterritoriality
- F
- Fairs, International Trade
- Fertilizer
- Festivals and Fairs, Medieval
- Feudalism
- Finance and Credit
- Financial Institutions
- Flax
- Florence
- Food and Diet
- Ford Motor Company
- Foreign Aid
- Frankincense and Myrrh
- Franklin, Benjamin (1706 / 1790)
- Frederick II
- Free Trade
- Freemasonry
- French Empire
- French Revolution
- Fruits
- Fugger Family
- Fur
- G
- Gandhi, Mohandas (1869 / 1948)
- Garamantian Empire
- Gemstones
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1947)
- General Electric Company
- General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, The (1936)
- Genoa
- German Empires
- Ghana
- Ghaznavids
- Glass
- Globalization
- Gold
- Gold Standard
- Goths
- Grain
- Great Depression
- Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
- Greek City-States
- Guangzhou (Canton)
- Guano
- Gunpowder
- H
- Haiti
- Hakluyt, Richard (1552 / 1616)
- Hamburg
- Hanseatic League
- Hapsburgs
- Harbors.
- Hargreaves, James (1720 / 1777)
- Heckscher, Eli Filip (1879 / 1952)
- Hellenistic Architecture
- Hemp
- Henry the Navigator (1394 / 1460)
- Hinduism
- Hittite Empire
- Hohenstauffen Empire
- Hollywood
- Hong Kong
- Hundred Years' War
- I
- Illegal Trade
- Immigration
- Imperialism
- Incas
- Indentured Servants
- Indian Ocean Trade
- Indigo
- Indus River
- Industrial Revolution
- Industrialism
- Inflation
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Internal Combustion Engine
- International Monetary Fund
- International Trade Commission
- Internet
- Iron
- Iron Law of Wages
- Irrigation
- Isabella of Castile (1451 / 1504)
- Islam
- Ivory
- Ivory Coast
- J
- Jade
- Jews
- Joint-Stock Companies
- Judaism
- Jute
- K
- Keynes, John Maynard (1883 / 1946)
- Khan, Genghis (1162 / 1229)
- Khazar Empire
- Kilwa
- Kipling, Rudyard (1865 / 1936)
- Knights Templar
- Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Kush
- L
- Labor
- Laissez-Faire
- Law
- Leather
- Linear B Script
- Linen
- List, Georg Friedrich (1789 / 1846)
- Livestock
- Luddites
- M
- Madras
- Magellan, Ferdinand (1480 / 1521)
- Mali
- Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766 / 1834)
- Manchu Dynasty
- Manila
- Manila Galleons
- Market Revolution
- Marketplaces
- Marshall Plan
- Marx, Karl (1818 / 1883)
- Mayan Civilization
- Media
- Medici Family
- Medicine
- Mediterranean Sea
- Melaka
- Mercantilism
- Merchant Guilds
- Mesopotamian Architecture
- Mesopotamian Trade
- Middle Ages
- Migration, Human
- Milan
- Mill, John Stuart (1806 / 1873)
- Ming Dynasty
- Minoan Civilization
- Missionaries
- Mogadishu
- Molasses
- Money
- Mongol Invasions
- Monuments
- Mughal Empire
- Multinational Enterprise
- Mycenae
- N
- Napoleonic Wars
- Navigation
- Navigation Laws
- Netherlands
- New Imperialism
- Nile River
- Nineveh
- Nomads
- Nontarrif Barriers
- North American Free Trade Agreement (1994)
- Novgorod
- Nuts
- O
- Oases
- Oil
- Olives
- Open Door Notes.
- Opium
- Ottomans
- P
- Panama Canal
- Paper and Pulp
- Patents
- Pegolotti, Francesco Balducci (1315 / 1340)
- Pepper
- Perfume
- Persian Gulf
- Peter the Great (1672 / 1725)
- Petra
- Phoenicia
- Pilgrimages
- Piracy
- Pochteca
- Polo, Marco (1254 / 1324)
- Pony Express
- Population
- Portugal
- Potatoes
- Pottery
- Printing Press
- Protestantism
- Punic Wars
- Q
- Quadrant
- R
- Radanites
- Rae, John (1796 / 1872)
- Ragusa, Republic of (Dubrovnik)
- Railroads
- Reciprocity
- Redistribution
- Reformation
- Religion
- Renaissance
- Revolutions
- Ricardo, David (1772 / 1823)
- Rice
- Roman Catholic Church
- Roman Empire
- Roman Empire, Fall of
- Rothschilds
- Royal Niger Company
- Rum
- Russian Revolution
- S
- Saharan and Trans-Saharan Trade
- Salt
- Sculpture
- Service Sector
- Seven Years' War
- Shanghai
- Ships
- Shipwrecks
- Sicily
- Silk
- Silk Road
- Silver
- Singer, Isaac (1811 / 1875)
- Slavery
- Slaves, Plantation
- Smith, Adam (1723 / 1790)
- Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930)
- Socialism
- Songhai Empire
- South Africa
- South America
- Southeast Asia
- Soviet / African Trade Relations
- Soviet Union
- Soybeans
- Spanish Empire
- Spice Route
- Spices
- Srivijaya Empire
- Steam Engine
- Steamship
- Steel
- Suez Canal
- Sugar
- Surat
- T
- Tally Sticks
- Tariff Barriers
- Tariffs
- Tea
- Technology
- Telegraph
- Telephone
- Terrorism
- Teutonic Knights
- Textiles
- Timber/Sorochok
- Tin
- Tobacco
- Tortoiseshell
- Tourism
- Trade Organizations
- Trade Winds
- Trademarks
- Transactions Costs
- Transportation and Trade
- Triangle Trade
- Tunisia
- U
- United Nations
- United States
- U.S. / China Trade
- U.S. / Japanese Trade Relations
- V
- Venice
- Vikings
- Volga Bulgaria
- W
- War of 1812
- Warfare
- Wars for Empire
- Water
- Wealth
- Weapons
- Weights and Measures
- West Africa
- Whales
- Whitney, Eli (1765 / 1825)
- Wine
- Women
- Wood.
- Wool
- World Bank
- World Trade Organization
- World War I
- World War II
- Primary Documents
- Code of Hammurabi (18th Century B.C.E.)
- Pope Urban II Initiates the First Crusade (1095)
- Papal Edicts on Usury (1139 and 1179)
- Francesco Pegolotti's Merchant Handbook, Excerpts (1340s)
- Canon Law Concerning Usury Used to Break Contracts (1369)
- Columbus's Journal, First Voyage, Excerpts (1492)
- Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
- Instructions on Selling Indulgences (1517)
- Colonial Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh (1584)
- British East India Company Charter (1600)
- Sir Edwin Sandys's Report from the Committee on Free Trade (1604)
- English Trade in Japan, Excerpts from a Merchant's Journal (1615)
- Dutch East India Company Charter (1621)
- Sir Thomas Culpepper's Tract Against Usury (1621)
- Sir Thomas Roe's Speech on the Decay of Trade (1641)
- On Bills of Exchange, Tract by John Marius (1655)
- Navigation Acts of 1660 and 1663, Excerpts
- Colbert on Mercantilism (1664)
- Treaty of Utrecht, Article X (1713)
- The Merchant Adventurers' Views on Free Trade (1716)
- Treaty of Paris (1763)
- Sugar Act of 1764
- Stamp Act of 1765, Article 1
- British Tea Act of 1773
- The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, Excerpt (1776)
- "Essay on the Principles of Population," by Thomas Malthus, Excerpt (1798)
- Louisiana Purchase (1803)
- Berlin Decree (1806)
- An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, British Parliament (1807)
- Milan Decree (1807)
- Contract between the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company and Thomas James (1809)
- "Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws," by Thomas Malthus, Excerpt (1814)
- David Ricardo on the Iron Law of Wages (1817)
- Treaty of Nanjing (1842)
- An Act for the More Effectual Suppression of the Slave Trade, British Parliament (1843)
- Friedrich Engels on Protective Tariffs or Free Trade System (1847)
- Karl Marx's Speech on Free Trade, January 9, 1848
- Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Excerpt (1848).
- Royal Niger Company Contract (1886)
- Convention Respecting the Free Navigation of the Suez Maritime Canal (1888)
- First Open Door Note (1899)
- Panama Canal Treaty of 1903
- Federal Reserve Act (1913)
- Economic Consequences of the Peace, by John Maynard Keynes, Excerpt (1919)
- Statute of Westminster (1931)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1932)
- Herbert Hoover's Response to Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1932)
- Neutrality Act of 1935
- Nye Committee Report (1936)
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1947)
- Constitution of the French Community (1958)
- ASEAN Declaration (1967)
- Panama Canal Treaty of 1977
- Ronald Reagan's "Evil Empire" Speech (1982)
- Enterprise for the Americas Initiative, George H.W. Bush (1990)
- Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (1995)
- Ministerial Declaration, World Trade Organization, Doha Round of Negotiations (2001)
- G20 Declaration, Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy (2008)
- Copenhagen Accord, United Nations Climate Change Conference (2009)
- Chronology
- Glossary
- Master Bibliography
- Books and Articles
- Web Sites.