An Economic History of the World Since 1400

[01] Self-Interest, Human Survival, and History [02] Marco Polo, China, and Silk Road Trade [03] Manorial Society in Medieval Europe [04] How Black Death Reshaped Town and Field [05] Late-14th-Century Guilds and Monopolies [06] European Discovery Routes: East and West [07] 1571: Spain, Portugal Encircle the Globe [08] Old World Bourses and Market Information [09] Europeans' Plantation Labor Problem [10] Adam Smith, Mercantilism, State Building [11] British and Dutch Joint-Stock Companies [12] Europe, the Printing Press, and Science [13] Industrious Revolution: Demand Grows [14] Why Didn't China Industrialize Earlier? [15] 18th-Century Agriculture and Production [16] Industrial Revolution: The Textile Trade [17] British Coal, Coke, and a New Age of Iron [18] Power: From Peat Bogs to Steam Engines [19] A Second Industrial Revolution after 1850 [20] Family Labor Evolves into Factory Work [21] Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Modern Firm [22] 19th-Century Farm Technology, Land Reform [23] Speeding Up: Canals, Steamships, Railroads [24] European Urbanization and Emigration [25] Unions, Strikes, and the Haymarket Affair [26] Banks, Central Banks, and Modern States [27] Understanding Uneven Economic Development [28] Adam Smith's Argument for Free Trade [29] Middle-Class Catalogs and Mass Consumption [30] Imperialism: Land Grabs and Morality Plays [31] World War I: Industrial Powers Collide [32] Russia's Marxist-Leninist Experiment [33] Trouble with the Gold Standard [34] Tariffs, Cartels, and John Maynard Keynes [35] Japanese Expansionism: Manchurian Incident [36] U.S. Aid and a Postwar Economic Miracle [37] Colonialism and the Independence Movement [38] Japan, the Transistor, and Asia's Tigers [39] Welfare State: From Bismarck to Obama [40] End of American Exceptionalism? [41] Middle East: From Pawn to Power Broker [42] Germany, the European Union, and the Euro [43] Free Trade: Global versus Regional Blocs [44] Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the Soviet Decline [45] Half the World Left behind in Poverty [46] China, India: Two Paths to Wealth Extremes [47] Information Economy: Telegraph to Tech [48] Leverage with Globalization in Its Grip