Trade History

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    • How Trade Shaped the World
    • By: William J. Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 387 ratings
    • In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce....

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    • The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 524 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of Leviathan comes this sweeping narrative of one of America’s most historically rich industries....

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    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • The empires of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Greeks, Romans, and Chinese were underpinned by slavery, where one person could be owned by another, and their obedience and labor were forced by the threat of violence or even death.

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    • How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    • By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Stories of the Slaves That Were Brought to the Americas
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • This guide will take you on a journey across time, from the late 1400s to the very end of the 19th century, as well as across the globe, from Europe, across Africa, to the American continents. You’ll learn why and how the slave trade began and more....

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    • The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
    • By: Benjamin T. Smith
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, White and Brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. Benjamin T. Smith tells the real story of how and why this one-peaceful industry turned violent....

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    • The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
    • By: Ha-Joon Chang
    • Narrated by: Jim Bond
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 298 ratings
    • This book calls on America to return to its abandoned role, to offer a helping hand instead of a closed fist to countries struggling to follow in our footsteps....

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    • A History of Financial Speculation
    • By: Edward Chancellor
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 349 ratings
    • Devil Take the Hindmost is a lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to the present day. Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the modern world....

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    • Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
    • By: Sebastian Mallaby
    • Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 861 ratings
    • Bolstered by Mallaby’s unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007–2009....

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    • The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
    • By: Stephen R. Platt
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 850 ratings
    • As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it....

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    • Revised and Expanded Third Edition
    • By: Robert J. Shiller
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • With high stock and bond prices and the rising cost of housing, the post-subprime boom may well turn out to be another illustration of Shiller's influential argument that psychologically driven volatility is an inherent characteristic of all asset markets....

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    • The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
    • By: Raoul McLaughlin
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran)....

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    • The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
    • By: Angela C. Sutton
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • No one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fierce naval battle would have a monumental impact on British colonies and the future of slavery in America.

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    • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
    • By: Mark Pendergrast
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

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    • Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
    • By: Tom Burgis
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it's a mirage....

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    • By: Barton Biggs
    • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • Legendary Wall Street investor Barton Biggs will help the 21st-century investor comprehend our own perilous times as well as choose the best strategies for the modern market economy....

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    • By: Dennis Smith
    • Narrated by: Eric Conger, Jeff David, Don Leslie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • Report from Ground Zero is the most detailed and immediate record of 9/11, with the unique perspective of a writer who has been praised as "the poet laureate of firefighters"....

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    • How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
    • By: Nick Robins
    • Narrated by: Simon Barber
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational....

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    • How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff
    • By: Christine S. Richard
    • Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • With a mix of entertaining real-life extracts, client case studies, and personal experiences, Future Proofing Your Business offers potent and refined tools that have been road tested in real-world situations and aren't taught in business school....

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