Global Trade in the Premodern World: Thematic Approaches to Routes, Realms, and Networks - Paperback

by Richard L. Smith (Author), Edmond Smith (Author)

Global Trade in the Premodern World offers an authoritative and expansive history of exchange and interaction across Eurasia from the prehistoric origins of trade to the integration of large parts of this world-system by the fifteenth century CE.

Author Biography

Richard L. Smith was Emeritus Professor of History at Ferrum College, Virginia. His teaching and research were driven by wide-ranging interests in trade across Afro-Eurasia, especially in the first millennium CE. Smith's publications include Premodern Trade in World History (2008) and numerous chapters and articles.

Edmond Smith is Professor of Economic Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. Their research and teaching explore the cultural and institutional origins of globalization across the second millennium CE. Smith has published numerous articles, chapters, and books, including the prize-winning monograph Merchants (2021).