This book focuses on why Europe became the dominant economic force in global trade between 1450 and 1750.

This volume examines the rise of the many different trading empires from the end of the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.

A work of major importance for the economic history of both Europe and North America.

We are what we eat: this aphorism contains a profound truth about civilization, one that has played out on the world historical stage over many millennia of hum