Bernstein - A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

No author writes a nonfiction work of any length and scope without shamelessly relying upon family, friends, colleagues, publishing staff, and total strangers for advice and direction. I could not have written this book without the help of numerous individuals.

Leonard Andaya, Liam Brockey, Peter Downey, Lee Drago, Christopher Ehret, David Eltis, Mark Garrison, Dermot Gately, Katheryn Gigler, Peter Gottschalk, Michael Guasco, Jonathan Israel, Glenn May, Joel Mokyr, J. P. McNeill, the late Clark Reynolds, Giorgio Riello, Patricia Risso, Dani Rodrik, Ron Roope, Bradley Rogers, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Steve Vinson, David Warsh, Roger Weller, Jonathan Wendel, and Willem Wolters provided much needed referencing information.

In particular, I would like to thank the following for help in these specific areas: Walter Bloom and Jeremy Green, Australian silver coin finds; Roger Burt, British and American mining history; Fred Drogula and Jean Paul Rodrigue, maritime chokepoints; Michael Laffan, the Ternatan Rebellion; Jonathan Rees, the mysteries of early refrigerated shipping; Ronald Rogowski, the politics of the Stolper-Samuelson theorem; Richard Sylla, the early planning stages of the book; Daniel Trefler, recent Canadian trade history; Carl Trocki, opium addiction in nineteenth-century China; Shelly Wachsmann, early maritime history; and Jeffrey Williamson, the quantitative aspects of recent economic history.

I pestered several people unmercifully; they are owed not only thanks but apologies: Donald Kagan for helping me disguise, if only thinly, my deficiencies in Greek history; Mark Wheelis for reminding me of the things I should have learned in microbiology about the plague bacillus; Sidney Mintz for providing valued guidance on the history of the Caribbean sugar trade; and last, and most certainly not least, Doug Irwin for assistance in picking my way through the intellectual history of the never-ending battle between protection and free trade.

Two giants of economic and financial journalismPeter Bernstein and Jason Zweigoffered priceless advice, as did other friends: Barney Sherman, Bob Uphaus, and Ed Tower, as well as Eds students in his Neat New Books in International Trade and Economic Development course at Duke University, particularly Eric Schwartz and Mark Marvelli.

Wesley Neff generously lent his long years of literary experience to the project from start to finish; Toby Mundy, Morgan Entrekin, Luba Ostashevsky, and Michael Hornburg at Grove/Atlantic Press provided expert editorial guidance; Matthew Ericson created the books maps; Lewis OBrien provided permission and imaging assistance; and Molly Blalock-Koral helped secure obscure reference materials.

Two editors at Grove/Atlantic, Brando Skyhorse and Jofie Ferrari-Adler, deserve special mention. Brando taught me a multitude of narrative skills that I sorely lacked and supplied the fortitude to attack what seemed an insurmountably broad topic, while Jofie polished it to a smoothness that I could not have achieved on my own and adroitly shepherded the book through the production process.

Finally, my wife Jane Gigler supplied, in addition to superhuman quantities of patience and large blocks of her precious free time, what can only be described as literary alchemy. Over the past several years, she showed me how to transform an amorphous mass of jumbled, disorganized prose into pages I could send to my editors with a clear conscience. I do not deserve her.

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