title: Conquest, Tribute, and Trade: The Quest for Precious Metals and the Birth of Globalization
author:  Howard J. Erlichman 
description: "Erlichman has written a quite fascinating popular history of the role played by the overseas expansion of the Iberian nations in the sixteenth century. Conquest, Tribute, and Trade is a well-researched and well-told saga of international rivalries between the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Ottoman empires, the international search for minerals, and the sometimes unexpected similarities between then and now."<br>--Stanley Engerman, John H. Munro Professor of Economics and professor of history, University of Rochester<br><br>"A fascinating account of the attempts of Portugal and Spain to find a new route to the spice markets of the Indies after Muslims had taken control of the overland avenues through the eastern Mediterranean; the inadvertent discovery of gold and silver in the Americas; the consequences of massive inflows of wealth on nascent European politics; and the ultimate emergence of a new world economy centered in Amsterdam&#8230;. All in all, informative, full of new insights, and an enjoyable read."<br>--Brian J. L. Berry, Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor and dean of the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
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  _On the distant planet Dorvalla, precious ore is mined by two competing
  companies: InterGalactic Ore and Lommite Limited. Neither rival suspects that
  they are central to a sinister plot masterminded by Darth Sidious, Lord of the
  Sith, himself._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Dispatched by Sidious on his very first solo mission, Darth Maul infiltrates
  Lommite Limited. There, his unique gifts of deception and subterfuge will set
  off an explosive chain of events that could destroy both companies, leaving
  them ripe for takeover by the Trade Federation. But a vengeful Lommite Limited
  Manager with his own thirst for retaliation against InterGal could blow Maul's
  cover — and all of Sidious's fiendishly laid plans…_
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Darth Maul: Saboteur
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Nearly every world in the Videnda sector had something to recommend itwarm
  saline seas, verdant forests, arable grasslands that stretched to distant
  horizons. The outlying world known as Dorvalla had a touch of all of those.
  But what i