This paper provides an introduction to what is known about trends in international commodity market integration during the second half of the second millennium. Throughout, our focus is on intercontinental trade, since it is the emergence of large-scale trade between the continents which has...

Any consideration of "The Europeanization of the Globe and the Globalization of Europe" must confront the problem of how to specify the spatio-temporal coordinates of the concept of Europe. When does "Europe" begin as a meaningful cultural, social and political expression and how far east from...

This book provides the first systematic, integrated, analytical account of the evolution of the international economy during the last millennium.It emphasizes the two-way interaction between trade and geopolitics, and the importance of such interactions for world economic development.