03271nam 2200709Ia 450 991082145000332120200520144314.01-134-66902-X0-429-23208-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)99100000000025245819980414d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPacific centuries Pacific and Pacific Rim economic history since the 16th century /edited by Dennis O. Flynn, Lionel Frost and A.J.H. Latham1st ed.London Routledge19991 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 historyEconomic historyPacific AreaEconomic conditionsPacific AreaHistoryEconomic history.330.99Flynn Dennis Owen1945-147050Frost Lionel1654730Latham A. J. H300163MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821450003321Pacific centuries4006753UNINA