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The Elephant and the Dragon
The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us© 2007 Robyn Meredith272 pages For most of the 20th century, Europe and the United States enjoyed an outsided influence on global … Continue reading
Oil on the Brain
Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Journey to Your Tank © 2007 Lisa Magonelli 336 pages Every moment, oil is surging up wells, being chemically sorted in vast refineries, sloshing its way across continents in pipelines, and being dispersed … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, China, commerce, goods/services, Middle East, Near East, occupational account, on the job, Persia, Persia-Iran, resources, South America
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The Spice Route
The Spice Route© 2005 John Keay308 pages Spock was right. Having a thing is often not as pleasant as wanting a thing. It is not logical, but it is often true. Such was the case with the spice trade, which so … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged age of discovery, Asia, commerce, globalization, history, John Keay, Mediterranean, Middle East, Near East, Persia, Persia-Iran, Rome
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The Great Cities in History
The Great Cities in History© 2009 ed. John Julius Norwich302 pages The Great Cities in History takes readers on a literary world tour, traveling through space and time to visit the greatest political bodies in history. Civilization is nothing … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged Asia, cities, commerce, history, Mediterranean, Middle East, Near East, NYC
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A Splendid Exchange
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World© 2009 David Bernstein496 pages History oft moves with the caravans and trade fleets, and its journeys along the routes of the past and present are given a storied account … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged America, Asia, Britain, commerce, Europe, goods/services, history, Middle East, Near East, Netherlands, resources, survey, trains
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Why We Buy
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping© 1997, 2008 Paco UnderhillSimon and Schuster320 pages No book on marketing, Why We Buy is an introduction to the novel field of retail anthropology. Young Paco Underhill was once an urban studies student assigned … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, business, commerce, goods/services, marketing
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The Call of the Mall
Call of the Mall: the Geography of Shopping© 2005 Paco Underbill240 pages Paco Underhill wants to take a little walk with you through the local mall, to see it with his eyes- the eyes of a “retail anthropologist” and marketing … Continue reading
Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England
Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England© 2008 Sally Crawford224 pages Who were the Anglo-Saxons? For a people conquered in 1066, their culture seems strangely dominant; the land the Normans conquered remains England, not Greater Normandy, and Norman French is only … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglo-Saxons, Britain, commerce, farming, history, manners and morals, Medieval, religion, social history
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