Conquest, Tribute and Trade

In this 2016 edition of Conquest, Tribute, and Trade, the authors have revised their text to improve the readability and clarity of the book. The book itself attempts to address three under-analyzed concepts that led to globalization. Namely, how and why the discovery, extraction, and distribution of precious metals—gold, copper, and silver—enabled the Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch to supersede the great Italian city-states, neutralize the Ottoman Empire and overturn centuries of Muslim domination in Africa and Asia during the course of the sixteenth century.