03315oam 2200697I 450 991045124210332120200520144314.00-429-23208-X1-282-37299-897866123729951-134-66903-80-203-44566-X10.4324/9780203445662 (CKB)1000000000252458(EBL)166441(OCoLC)59004051(SSID)ssj0000282627(PQKBManifestationID)11228408(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282627(PQKBWorkID)10318538(PQKB)11492076(MiAaPQ)EBC166441(Au-PeEL)EBL166441(CaPaEBR)ebr10054841(CaONFJC)MIL237299(OCoLC)1000432421(EXLCZ)99100000000025245820180331d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPacific centuries Pacific and Pacific Rim history since the sixteenth century /edited by Dennis O. Flynn, Lionel Frost and A.J.H. LathamLondon ;New York :Routledge,1999.1 online resource (272 p.)Routledge explorations in economic historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-75751-7 0-415-18431-2 Includes bibliographical references (p.246-49) and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction: Pacific centuries emerging; Spanish profitability in the Pacific: the Philippines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; The great silk exchange: how the world was connected and developed; Islands in the rim: ecology and history in and around the Pacific, 1521 1996; Maritime trade and the agro-ecology of South China, 1685 1850; Rice is a luxury, not a necessity: the sources of Asian growth; Gold rushes and the trans-Pacific wheat trade: California and Australia, 1848 57American trade dollars in nineteenth-century ChinaAlfred Crosby's Ecological Imperialism reconsidered: a case study of European settlement and environmental change on the Pacific Rim; Economic motivations for China-United States rapproachment in 1971; Migration and perceptions of identity: the case of Singapore and Malaysian perceptions of the Australian identity, 1966 96; IndexThis book provides an overview of five centuries of Pacific and Pacific Rim economic and trade history, making it a valuable contribution to understanding of the increasing global importance of this region.Routledge explorations in economic historyPacific and Pacific Rim history since the 16th centuryEconomic historyPacific AreaEconomic conditionsPacific AreaHistoryElectronic books.Economic history.330.99Flynn Dennis Owen1945-147050Frost Lionel912427Latham A. J. H300163FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910451242103321Pacific centuries2043664UNINA