East/West trade is an old story -- and this book details the literal money exchange and flow in the different centuries between the two hemispheres. Fascinating.... ( )

This book is a good start at constructing a non-eurocentric global economic history of 1400-1800 ce. It has some good discussions and references but it is marred by flaky arguments and excessive rhetoric. If it surprises you that two hundred years ago India had ten thousand steel making furnaces, consider this book for a start on reorientation. ( )