Koeki No Sekai Shi SHUMAIL Kara Gendai Made Shita / Original Title: a SPLENDID EXCHANGE (Chiku Ma Gakugei Bunko)

[Machine Translation] To consider modern globalization and protection/free trade, we must first know its origins. As recent archaeological discoveries have revealed, humans have exchanged a wide variety of commodities since the dawn of time. Trade is the indispensable soil for human societies to flourish, sometimes bringing civilizations together and sometimes causing various frictions and terrible conflicts. However, without trade, there would be no humanity. This is a comprehensive history that depicts the hidden history of the region on an impressive scale, richly illustrated with episodes. The second volume of the book covers the period from the 17th century, when the emerging European countries such as the Netherlands and the United Kingdom made a full-scale entry into the world market, to the beginning of the 21st century, when the opposition to globalization was growing.

現代のグローバル化や保護貿易/自由貿易を考えるには、まずその起源を知らねばならない。近年の考古学的発見が明らかにしたように、人類はその黎明期から多種多様な商品を交換してきた。交易は、人間社会が繁栄するための欠かせない土壌であり、ときに諸文明を結びつけ、ときにさまざまな軋轢や凄惨な衝突をも巻き起こす。だが、交易なくして人類はない。知られざるその歴史を、エピソード豊かに圧巻のスケールで描き出した通史。下巻は、オランダ、イギリスなどのヨーロッパ新興国が世界市場に本格的に進出する17世紀から、グローバル化への反発が高まりを見せる21世紀のはじめまで。