- Introduction
- 1. Transformations
- Constructive Destruction?
- The Great Divergence
- Environment as Resource and Victim
- Cotton and the First Industrial Revolution
- Free Trade
- The Second Industrial Revolution
- States, Markets, and Monopolies
- Foreign Investment
- Comparing Worldwide Production
- 2. The Sinews of Trade
- Currency
- Shipping
- Canals
- Railroads
- Integration or Fragmentation?
- Iron and Steel
- The Automobile
- The Airplane
- Telegraphs, Underwater Cables, and Radios
- Copper and Other Metals
- Petroleum
- Rubber
- 3. Commodity Chains
- Grains
- Breadbasket Variations
- Hedging Futures
- Sealing and Resealing Boxcars
- From Millstones to Minneapolis
- Uneeda to Eat More Crackers
- Rice as Contrarian
- Ripple Effects
- Stimulants
- Sugar
- Sugar Beets
- The Market for Sugar
- Coffee
- Tea
- Chocolate
- Outlaws
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Global Markets Transformed
1870–1945
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