About this deck
Long before steam, three trade systems wove distant continents together. Each carried not just goods, but ideas, diseases, and — in one case — millions of human beings. Key sections include: GLOBALIZATION / How the world got tangled together — and why everyone is suddenly trying to untangle it.; The world was always trading. Just slower, and bloodier.; Steam, telegraph, gold — and the world shrank for the first time.; It all came undone. Quickly.; 730 delegates, 44 nations, one New Hampshire hotel.; A trucker from North Carolina invented modern globalization.; From negotiated truce to permanent court.; The single most consequential trade event since WWII.; No country makes anything anymore. Every country makes parts.; The pendulum, suddenly visible..