Conquest, Tribute and Trade

by Howard J. Erlichman

This new (and substantially revised) edition of Conquest, Tribute and Trade: How the Quest for Precious Metals Gave Birth to Globalization explains the birth of globalization in a new way and addresses three interrelated economic issues that have been under-analyzed to date. First, how and why the discovery, extraction and distribution of precious metals -- gold, copper and, above all, silver -- enabled the closely-related Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch to supersede the great Italian city-sta

ISBN: 9780692385388