Glenn J. Ames, The Globe Encompassed: The Age of European Discovery, 1500–1700 (2007). An up-to-date survey of European expansion in the early modern era.

Andre Gunder Frank, ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age (1998). An account of the early modern world economy that highlights the centrality of Asia.

Erik Gilbert and Jonathan Reynolds, Trading Tastes: Commodity and Cultural Exchange to 1750 (2006). A world historical perspective on transcontinental and transoceanic commerce.

David Northrup, ed., The Atlantic Slave Trade (2002). A fine collection of essays about the origins, practice, impact, and abolition of Atlantic slavery.

John Richards, The Endless Frontier (2003). Explores the ecological consequences of early modern commerce.

John K. Thornton, A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820 (2012). A recent account of the intersection of European, African, and Native American people by a highly respected historian.

“The Spice of Life: Pepper, the Master Spice,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuZujx-LMfg. A BBC film that presents the history of pepper, so central to the spice trade of the early modern era.