The Spring 2019 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Trade, is now on newsstands. With original essays by Lewis H. Lapham, Suzy Hansen, Laleh Khalili, and Paul Strohm; Voices in Time contributions by al-Dimashqi, Fernand Braudel, Joseph Conrad, Maria Edgeworth, Eduardo Galeano, Jane Jacobs, Hilary Mantel, François Rabelais, Ayn Rand, David Ricardo, Max Weber, Rebecca West, and others; and art by Francis Alÿs, George Caleb Bingham, and others.
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INTRODUCTORY
Cover | Dionysus crossing the sea, black-figure kylix, Execias, c. 530 bc
Program Notes | Among the Contributors
Map | Terms of Sale
Preamble | Lewis H. Lapham, Globalization
VOICES IN TIME
Negotiations & Deals
2018: Washington, DC | Hearings on Section 301 Tariffs
c. 1520: Vijayanagar | Krishnadevaraya
c. 1100: Damascus | Abu al-Fadl Jafar ibn Ali al-Dimashqi
1527: London | Hilary Mantel
1970: Montevideo | Eduardo Galeano
1776: Kirkcaldy | Adam Smith
1957: New York City | Ayn Rand
1636: Quebec | Paul le Jeune
1934: Washington, DC | Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1552: Atlantic Ocean | François Rabelais
1892: Brusa | Gertrude Bell
2008: Azeroth | Scott Rettberg
1799: Dejima | David Mitchell
1898: Boston | Charlotte Perkins Gilman
c. 1190 bc: Troy | William Shakespeare
1904: Sulaco | Joseph Conrad
1791: Philadelphia | Alexander Hamilton
c. 1806: Bratslav | Nachman of Bratslav
1455: Lisbon | Antoniotto Usodimare
c. 1940: Bombay | Salman Rushdie
1904: Heidelberg | Max Weber
1688: Amsterdam | Joseph Penso de la Vega
1804: Jamaica | Maria Edgeworth
1842: London | Anti-Corn Law League
c. 1900: Tanganyika | Abdulrazak Gurnah
1919: Boston | Major League Baseball
Routes & Outposts
2011: Baltimore | Joshuah Bearman
1902: London | John Masefield
c. 150: China | Ma Duanlin
c. 1504: Atlas Mountains | Amin Maalouf
c. 1573: Augsburg | Fugger Newsletters
1838: Hugli River | Amitav Ghosh
1635: Edo | Sakoku Edict
1969: Toronto | Jane Jacobs
1949: Paris | Fernand Braudel
1854: Marea | Ferdinand de Lesseps
c. 300: Niya | Shanshan Tablet
1793: Beijing | Qianlong
1846: Fort Laramie | Francis Parkman
c. 1849: Platte River | Curly Chief
c. 50: Red Sea | Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
1788: Plymouth | William Elford
c. 1915: Trobriand Islands | Marcel Mauss
c. 1690: London | Dudley North
c. 1728: England | Voltaire
1937: Dalmatia | Rebecca West
66 bc: Rome | Cicero
1544: Junquinilau | Fernão Mendes Pinto
1382: Florence | Iris Origo
1979: New York City | June Nash
c. 120: Rome | Juvenal
Markets & Rackets
c. 2006: Hong Kong | Ling Ma
1711: London | Joseph Addison
1903: Chicago | Frank Norris
1817: Gloucestershire | David Ricardo
c. 1670: Hamburg | Glückel of Hameln
2009: London | David Graeber
c. 1940: Paris | Walter Benjamin
1494: Florence | Luca Pacioli
c. 1915: Bahia | Jorge Amado
c. 77: Misenum | Pliny the Elder
1842: Russia | Nikolai Gogol
1968: Lawrence, KS | Robert F. Kennedy
1405: France | Christine de Pisan
1914: Nigeria | Northcote W. Thomas
c. 330 bc: Athens | Aristotle
c. 1800: New York City | Luc Sante
c. 1800: Bermuda | Mary Prince
c. 1870: San Francisco | Herbert Asbury
1859: Edo | Fukuzawa Yukichi
1945: Germany | Richard A. Radford
47: Tebtunis | Association of Salt Merchants
1873: Paris | Émile Zola
1519: Tenochtitlán | Bernal Díaz del Castillo
1888: London | Friedrich Engels
c. 330 bc: Teng | Mencius
FURTHER REMARKS
Essays
Timeless Life in the Grand Bazaar | Suzy Hansen
Maken Engelond Gret Ayeyn | Paul Strohm
A World Built on Sand and Oil | Laleh Khalili
Departments
Conversations | Jefferson, Fortunate Eagle, Warren
Miscellany | Wasp Unions, Visible Hands, Nut Income
Glossary | Arbitrage, Hawker, Quid Pro Quo
Sources | Readings & Art