Leigh Dale and Helen Gilbert
Ashgate
Hardback
262
2007
This volume documents the links among trade colonialism and forms of representation. Examining trade in commodities as diverse as illicit drugs liquor bananas disease tourism adventure fiction and modern aboriginal art as well as cultural exchanges in politics medicine and literature the contributors contest the view of trade as an equaliser of cultures places and peoples promoted by some modern economists demonstrating instead the ways in which commerce has created and exacerbated differences of power.