Cross-Cultural Trade

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This paper examines Philip Curtin's critically-acclaimed text, "Cross-Cultural Trade in World History". In particular, the paper evaluates a significant issue found within the body of the text and analyzes Curtin's treatment of it. The paper also provides the author's personal opinion on the subject. In addition, the paper emphasizes Curtin's point that trade among peoples never entails merely the exchange of goods; rather, it entails the creation of cultural linkages, as well as the forging of new ideas courtesy of the collision of different modes of thinking.

From the Paper:

"To close, this paper has looked at cross-cultural trade as discussed in Philip D. Curtin's excellent 1984 text, Cross-Cultural Trade in World History. Although Curtin does seem to fall short in some respects - he clearly fails to draw links between the past and the present at appropriate times (at least in the view of this writer) - the book is an excellent "run-down" of cross-cultural trade and how cultural, intellectual and (more arguably) technological transmission flowed from economic exchange. In the end, the paper is an important contribution to a worthwhile debate."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Curtin, Philip D. Cross-Cultural Trade in World History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

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