The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason (Studies in Monetary and Financial History) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521457386/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_i-...

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, Seventh Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017J5HBMS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_r.pw...

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation https://www.amazon.com/dp/0452281806/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_.a...

A History of Interest Rates, Fourth Edition (Wiley Finance) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0471732834/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_-c...

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802144160/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Hg...

"A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World" by William Bernstein provides a sweeping overview of world trade - including spices [0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Splendid-Exchange-Trade-Shaped-World/...

More popular history:

https://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Money-Financial-History-World/...

https://www.amazon.com/Splendid-Exchange-Trade-Shaped-World/...

https://www.amazon.com/Cash-Nexus-Money-Modern-1700-2000/dp/...

https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Take-Hindmost-Financial-Specula...

Academic but readable:

https://www.amazon.com/Manias-Panics-Crashes-History-Financi...

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Financial-Capitalism-Internation...