Conquest, Tribute and Trade: How the Quest for Precious Metals Gave Birth to Globalization. Second Edition.

This new edition of Conquest, Tribute and Trade: How the Quest for Precious Metals Gave Birth to Globalization (2016) has been revised to improve the clarity of the text, maps and end-notes. The book itself attempts to explain the birth of globalization in a new way and address three interrelated developments which have been under-analyzed, pigeon-holed or even ignored.

First, how and why the discovery, extraction and distribution of precious metals -- gold, copper and, above all, silver --...