List of Maps		ix
Introduction		1
1 Sumer		20
2 The Straits of Trade		43
3 Camels, Perfumes, and Prophets		54
4 The Baghdad-Canton Express		77
5 The Taste of Trade and the Captives of Trade		110
6 The Disease of Trade		130
7 Da Gama's Urge		152
8 A World Encompassed		198
9 The Coming of Corporations		214
10 Transplants		241
11 The Triumph and Tragedy of Free Trade		280
12 What Henry Bessemer Wrought		316
13 Collapse		338
14 The Battle of Seattle		366
Acknowledgments		387
Notes		389
Bibliography		429
Illustration Credits		449
Index		453