A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
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Acclaimed by readers and critics around the globe, A Splendid Exchange is a sweeping narrative history of world tradefrom Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C. to the firestorm over globalization todaythat brilliantly explores trade’s colorful and contentious past and provides new insights into its future.
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This book has more citations per words said than anything I have ever come across. It feels the leader isn’t really connecting anything or building analysis – just citation after citation. To make matters worse, his prose is embarrassingly awkward. I rate this book a 3 out of 5 because it makes a nice spectacle.
P.S All the five star ratings you see here are most likely from his chums.
The leader is a practitioner of the well-organized market hypothesis and additional financial quackery.
Excellent Day.
SMITH
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Not too terrible an exposition on why trade is preferable to war… in case we didn’t know.
The leader has a bizarre bias against the Portuguese to the point of misspelling some names and words(“Sequeria” as a replacement for of “Sequeira” and “degradados” as a replacement for of “degredados”). This bias contrasts poorly with the convolutions that the leader puts himself through to gloss over the Dutch atrocities in the East Indies.
Not a terrible read, not the best on the topic.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
There is so much excellent material in this book, I despise to downgrade it to two stars. But I am so sick of people using whatever medium to slot in their personal liberal liberal thoughts into every venue (like comparing Bush to some greedy, militaristic Portuguese of the long past) …which really has no place in a book like this, and there are plenty of additional examples… well, sorry. It just won’t do. I didn’t buy this book as a member of the leader’s imagined liberal in-group. And I didn’t appreciate his small liberal in-group jabs at Bush.
What a weird perspective, by the way, this book presents. While being anti-corporate and anti-American, it touts — over-touts, really — the grand contribution of Islamic cultures to the development of modern world trade. And yet, modern world trade is something America has excelled at, and Bush sought to defend.
I reflect the leader obviously did a fantastic deal of past research and open some worthy appealing past descriptions, but could not resist the temptation to slot in his own, current, modern political point of view as a lesson of some kind — which is oddly inconsistent with the history he researched.
Very weird book, on thinking about it. Kinda gives me the creeps, really, it’s so slimey the way he slips small liberal messages into his narration of past events.
Liberals will like this book… or maybe not. I mean… the book is kind of adage that commerce is a excellent thing. That would be commerce as opposed to, say, barter, the right New Age way of doing business.
The more I write this review, the more inclined I am to give it just one star. But I’ll place it at two, just for the sake of the leader’s excellent writing skills.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
The title says it all. 50% done. Really fascinating. Incredible how the fortunes of west, east, and middle east have risen and fallen due to (spices, the plague, islam, catholicism, exploration, naval equipment, etc…).
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
What a generic and trivial book. A smash up of financial and world history with no real thesis synthesization. I suppose there are several events and facts a person can pull from this book to use at the dinner table to impress persons present but as far as being a critical study of financial history, this text is poor. Perhaps if Bernstein had a better editor a more all ears book would have came forwards. There are to many things I do not like about this book to list. But what’s most irksome is how “safe” the leader is about his causal research and lack of critical analysis of the information. He provides his work as a pure defense of “free trade” for no reason additional than to celebrate the profit motive. I advise the curious to go to the library or buy from somewhere with a excellent refund policy. This book is not a keeper neither for the lay nor for the specialist.
Im sure this review will gather reasonably a few negative votes as Bernstein is one of pop-history’s darlings. So to pacify THEM I will say that Bernstein’s prose is enjoyable to read, not many can take the two subjects of history and finance and make it simple to read and know.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5