{"product_id":"global-markets-transformed-1870-1945-9780674281349","title":"Global Markets Transformed: 1870-1945","description":"\u003cp\u003eOffering a fresh look at trade during the second industrial revolution, \u003ci\u003eGlobal Markets Transformed \u003c\/i\u003edescribes a world of commodities on the move--wheat and rice, coffee and tobacco, oil and rubber, all jostling around the planet through a matrix of producers, processors, transporters, and buyers. Steven C. Topik and Allen Wells discuss how innovations in industrial and agricultural production, transportation, commerce, and finance transformed the world economy from 1870 to 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTopik and Wells trace the evolution of global chains of commodities, from basic food staples and stimulants to strategically important industrial materials, that linked the agricultural and mineral-producing areas of Latin America, Asia, and Africa to European and North American consumers and industrialists. People living a great distance apart became economically intertwined as never before. Yet laborers and consumers at opposite ends of commodity chains remained largely invisible to one another. Affluent American automobile owners who were creating the skyrocketing demand for tires, for example, knew almost nothing about poor Brazilian tappers who sweated in the Amazon to supply the rubber necessary for their vehicles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs commodity chains stretched out around the world, more goods were bound up in markets that benefited some countries more than others. \u003ci\u003eGlobal Markets Transformed\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the lessons and legacy of the early years of globalization--when the world's population doubled, trade quadrupled, industrial output multiplied fivefold, and the gap between rich and poor regions grew ever wider.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven C. Topik, Allen Wells\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674281349\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTopik, Steven C.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Steven C. Topik is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWells, Allen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Allen Wells is Roger Howell, Jr., Professor of History at Bowdoin College.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Belknap Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40085629599859,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":30.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9448d81b-e012-46e9-8721-57c1a916e172.jpg?v=1652450666","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/global-markets-transformed-1870-1945-9780674281349","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}