Global Trade in the Premodern World by Richard L. Smith, Edmo... - 9780367512248

Global Trade in the Premodern WorldThematic Approaches to Routes, Realms, and Networks\nAuthor(s): Richard L. Smith, Edmond Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367512248, 978-0367512248\nSynopsis\nGlobal Trade in the Premodern World offers an authoritative and expansive history of exchange and interaction across Eurasia from the prehistoric origins of trade to the integration of large parts of this world-system by the fifteenth century CE.\n\nThe book tackles questions that are critical to our understanding of premodern globalization. How did global trade in the premodern world take shape? Who did the trading and what motivated them? Which commodities were traded and how did different goods influence how trading networks functioned? How did geography change how and where people carried goods? How did states and communities seek to control the practice of commerce? And finally, what was the impact of trade on p.