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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765615003321

Titolo

Intra-Asian trade and the world market / / edited by A. J. H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2006

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2017

©2006

ISBN

9786610480746

9781280480744

1280480742

9780203086506

0203086503

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; ; 34

Classificazione

RR 10986

QG 800

Disciplina

382.095

Soggetti

Social Science / Regional Studies

History / Asia

Social Science / Black Studies (Global)

Social sciences

Asia Foreign economic relations

Asia Commerce

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1 China's overseas trade policy and its historical results: 1522-1840; 2 The golden age of Japanese copper: the intra-Asian copper trade of the Dutch East India Company; 3 Inter-Asian competition in the fur market in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; 4 The Japanese acquisition of maritime technology from the United Kingdom; 5 Inter-Asian competition in the world silk market: 1859-1929

6 Inter-Asian competition in the sugar market, 1890-19397 Rival



merchants: the Korean market in the late nineteenth century; 8 Tan Kim Ching and Siam "Garden rice": the rice trade between Siam and Singapore in the late nineteenth century; 9 The Rangoon Gazette and inter-Asian competition in the intra-Asian rice trade 1920-41; 10 Japanese competition in the Congo Basin in the 1930s; 11 Shifting patterns of multilateral settlements in the Asia-Pacific region in the 1930s

12 Inter-Asian competition for the British market in cotton textiles: the political economy of Anglo-Asian cartels, c.1932-6013 An edible oil for the world: Malaysian and Indonesian competition in the palm oil trade, 1945-2000; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Intra-Asian trade is a major theme of recent writing on Asian economic history. From the second half of the nineteenth century, intra-Asian trade flows linked Asia into an integrated economic system, with reciprocal benefits for all participants. But although this was a network from which all gained, there was also considerable inter-Asian competition between Asian producers for these Asian markets, and those of the wider world.This collection presents captivating snap-shots of trade in specific commodities, alongside chapters comprehensively covering the region. The book covers: Chi