Understanding the Recent Sino-U.S. Trade Conflict -- The Status of China’s Market Economy and Structural Reforms: The Issues behind the U.S.-China Trade War -- The Day After Tomorrow: Evaluating the Burden of Trump’s Trade War -- The Potential Impact of China–US BIT on China’s...

This book focuses on the current tension between China and the US on trade imbalance and discusses China's opening-up strategy in the context of this trade conflict. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, the author presents a detailed analysis of the current state of the...

The year 1873 was one of financial crisis. A boom in railway construction had spurred a bull market-but when the boom turned to bust, transatlantic panic quickly became a worldwide economic downturn. In Transatlantic Speculations, Hannah Catherine Davies offers a new lens on the panics of 1873...

The oceanic explorations of the 1490s led to countless material innovations worldwide and caused profound ruptures. Beverly Lemire explores the rise of key commodities across the globe, and charts how cosmopolitan consumption emerged as the most distinctive feature of material life after 1500 as...

This book examines trades in animals and animal products in the history of the Indian Ocean World (IOW). An international array of established and emerging scholars investigate how the roles of equines, ungulates, sub-ungulates, mollusks, and avians expand our understandings of commerce, human...

Early globalization, rising cosmopolitanism and a new world of goods -- Fabric and furs: a new framework of global consumption -- Dressing world peoples: regulation and cosmopolitan desire -- Smuggling, wrecking and scavenging: or, the informal pathways to consumption -- Tobacco and the politics...