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020		\|a9780008409296\|q(hardcover) :\|cNT$1199
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082	0	\|a910.133 P242
100	1	\|aParker, P.\|q(Philip),\|eauthor.
245	10	\|aHistory of world trade in maps /\|cPhilip Parker.
250		\|aFirst edition.
260	1	\|aGlasgow, Scotland :\|bCollins,\|c2020.
300		\|a224 pages :\|bcolor illustrations, color maps ;\|c28 cm.
336		\|atext\|btxt\|2rdacontent.
336		\|astill image\|bsti\|2rdacontent.
337		\|aunmediated\|bn\|2rdamedia.
338		\|avolume\|bnc\|2rdacarrier.
505	0	\|aAncient trade. Catalhöyük and Neolithic trade -- Trade in ancient Egypt -- Greek and Phoenician trade -- Trade in the ancient Near East -- Petra and the frankinscence route -- Roman trade -- The periplus and Rome's eastern trade -- Trade in late antiquity -- The amber road -- Medieval trade. Charlemagne and Carolingian trade -- Trade in the Islamic world -- Europe and the world in 1300 -- The Trans-Saharan gold trade -- The Silk Road -- Marco Polo and the Silk Road -- The rise of the maritime republics -- The Venetian trading empire -- Bruges and the cloth trade -- Plagues and pandemics -- The voyages of Zheng He -- Trade in the age of discovery. The joining of the world -- The Portuguese trading empire in Africa -- Circumnavigating the globe -- Ottoman trade in the 16th century -- Aztec trade -- The silver trade -- Pirates and privateers -- Newfoundland and the cod trade -- The Dutch and Manhattan -- The Hudson's Bay Company and the fur trade -- Trade and the birth of the United States -- South America and the Spanish -- The Portuguese and the spice trade -- The Dutch East India Company -- The Portuguese and the Japan trade -- Portugal's China trade -- Sweden, Russia and North European trade in the 16th century -- Trade, revolution and empire (c. 1700-1900). The British in India -- The slave trade -- The sugar trade -- The cotton trade -- The coffee trade -- The China tea trade and the clippers -- The age of steam -- World cities -- Imperialism and trade -- The Erie Canal -- The Suez Canal -- The Panama Canal -- The US Transcontinental Railroad -- The Trans-Siberian Railway -- The Cape to Cairo Railway -- The wool trade -- Refrigeration and the meat trade -- The coal trade -- Trade in the Industrial Age (1900-present). The second industrial revolution -- A smaller world -- Tariffs and trade -- The oil trade -- Electronics and the internet -- Banking and finance -- Tourism and trade -- Trade blocs -- Threats to world trade.
520		\|aDiscover the history of the United Kingdom through maps Trade is the lifeblood of nations. It has provided vital goods and wealth to countries and merchants from the ancient Egyptians who went in search of gold and ivory to their 21st-century equivalents trading high-tech electronic equipment from the Far East. In this beautiful book, more than 70 maps give a visual representation of the history of World Commerce, accompanied by text which tells the extraordinary story of the merchants, adventurers, middle-men and monarchs who bought, sold, explored and fought in search of profit and power. The maps are all works of art, witnesses to history, and have a fascinating story to tell. The maps include * Çatalhöyük Plan, c. 6200BC * Babylonian Map of the World, c. 600BC * Stone Map of China, 1136 * Hereford Mappa Mundi, c. 1300 * Buondelmonti Map of Constantinople, c. 1420 * The Waldseemüller Map, 1507 * James Rennell Map of Hindoostan, 1782 * Air Age Map, 1945 * Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Dashboard, 2020.
650	0	\|aInternational trade\|xMaps.
650	0	\|aCommercial statistics\|xMaps.
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Philip Parker is a historian and Sunday Times bestselling author with The Northman's Fury, who studied at Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University. He has written widely on late antiquity, the early Middle Ages and world history, and his unique panoramic history of the nation was published by Collins. He lives in London.
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