This work is split up into four parts. These are 'Overviews', 'The Pacific as Linchpin of World Trade', 'Winners and … Losers in the Global Silver Trade', and 'Birth of Globalization Debate: Ecological, Economic, Epidemiological, and …

links with China long predate the BRI. The book secondly proposes that today's semi-informal trade of bazaar goods between … China and Central Asia forms a central aspect of Eurasian transnational trade; an aspect which is often overlooked due to a … focus by commentators on formal trade deals in the region. The economic and social significance of bazaar trade is …