Waves of Prosperity: India, China and the West – How Global Trade Transformed The World

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Greg Clydesdale

Waves of Prosperity

India, China and the West – How Global Trade Transformed The World

Greg Clydesdale

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Robinson Publishing
13 September 2016

History; Social & cultural history; International economics; Economic history

When the Venetian merchant, Marco Polo, first arrived in Dynastic China he was faced with a society far advanced of anything he had encountered in Europe. The ports were filled with commodities from all over the eastern world, while new technology was driving the economy forward. It would take another 400 years before European trade in the Atlantic eclipsed the Pacific markets.

From China's phenomenally successful Sung dynasty (c. AD 960-1279), Cargoes reveals the power of the Mughals merchants of Gujarat, who built an empire so powerful that, even in the 17th century, the richest man in the world was a Gujarat trader. It was not until the opening up of the spice routes and the discovery of South American gold that medieval Iberia came to the fore. It was only then that the Atlantic Empire of the west came to dominate world trade, first the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century, then the British Empire in the age of the Industrial Revolution, American supremacy in the twentieth century, and the development of post-war Japan.

Along the way Greg Clydesdale looks at the parallel lives and ideas of merchants and explorers, missionaries, kings, bankers and emperors. He shows how great trading nations rise on a wave of technological and financial innovation and how in that success lies the cause of their inevitable decline.

By: Greg Clydesdale
Imprint: Robinson Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 598g
ISBN: 9781472139009
ISBN 10: 1472139003
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 13 September 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Greg Clydesdale is a lecturer in Management at Massey University in New Zealand. He writes and lectures around the world.

Reviews for Waves of Prosperity: India, China and the West – How Global Trade Transformed The World

Eye-opening in revealing the flow of wealth through 800 years of world history - Samsung Economics Research Lab hows how fundamental the exchange of commodities and the development of logistics have been to human history - Livraria da Folha Deals with the ways commerce has changed the world in the last 800 years, opening the way to globalization - Diario do Nordeste Recommended - Segye