An illuminating account of global commerce in the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders This book delves int

An account of eighteenth-century global commerce as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders, “written with verve and filled with arresting details”

In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the West and the territories it had conqu

A politician's humorous memoir of his year in federal prison, with a viable prescription for a more productive, cost-effective corrections system.

Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the "workshop of the world." Yet, while Ch