1. Trade diasporas and cross-cultural trade
2. Africa: incentives to trade, patterns of competition
3. Africa: traders and trade communities
5. A new trade axis: the Mediterranean to China, circa 200 B.C.-A.D. 1000
6. Asian trade in Eastern seas, 1000-1500
7. The European entry into the trade of maritime Asia
8. Bugis, banians, and Chinese: Asian traders in the era of the great companies
9. Overland trade of the seventeenth century: Armenian carriers between Europe and East Asia
10. The North American fur trade
11. The twilight of the trade diasporas.
