LEADER 04333nam 22007095 450 001 9910818859703321 005 20180925021522.0 010 $a1-137-46392-9 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137463920 035 $a(CKB)3710000000500350 035 $a(EBL)4082340 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001586919 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16270501 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001586919 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14869785 035 $a(PQKB)10383727 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-46392-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4082340 035 $a(PPN)191702323 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000500350 100 $a20160107d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCommodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Ulbe Bosma, Anthony Webster 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 225 1 $aCambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-349-55653-X 311 $a1-137-46391-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; List of Figures, Maps and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1 Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750: The Foundations of the Modern Asian 'Economic Miracle'?; 2 Asia in the Growth of World Trade: A Re-interpretation of the 'Long Nineteenth Century'; 3 On the Edge of Asia: Maritime Trade in East Indonesia, Early Seventeenth to Mid-twentieth Century; 4 Semarang, a Colonial Provincial Capital and Port City in Java, c.1775 327 $a5 Revisiting the 'Decline of Surat': Maritime Trade and the Port Complex of Gujarat in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries6 Western Merchants in the Foreign Settlements of Japan (c.1850-1890); 7 Neglected Orphans and Absent Parents: The European Mercantile Houses of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Java; 8 Building Intra-Asian and Transcontinental Mercantile Networks in the Age of the British East India Company: The Rise and Fall of the House of John Palmer; 9 Linking Global and Local Networks of Credit and Remittances: Ma Tsui Chiu's Financial Operations in Hong Kong, 1900s-1950s 327 $a10 British Exchange Banks in the International Trade of Asia from 1850 to 189011 Transcending the Empire: Western Merchant Houses and Local Capital in the Indian Cotton Trade (1850s-1930s); 12 Holding Back the Tide: Liverpool Shipping, Gentlemanly Capitalism and Intra-Asian Trade in the Twentieth Century; 13 Pursuit of Profit in the Shadow of Decolonisation: Indonesia in the 1950s; 14 The Chinese and Indian Corporate Economy: A Radical Construction of Law, the State and Corporations; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThis book examines the role of mercantile networks in linking Asian economies to the global economy. It contains fourteen contributions on East, Southeast and South Asia covering the period from 1750 to the present. 410 0$aCambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series 606 $aAsia-History 606 $aImperialism 606 $aEconomic history 606 $aHistory, Modern 606 $aAsian History$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/715000 606 $aImperialism and Colonialism$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/722000 606 $aEconomic History$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/W41000 606 $aModern History$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/713000 615 0$aAsia-History. 615 0$aImperialism. 615 0$aEconomic history. 615 0$aHistory, Modern. 615 14$aAsian History. 615 24$aImperialism and Colonialism. 615 24$aEconomic History. 615 24$aModern History. 676 $a950 702 $aBosma$b Ulbe$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aWebster$b Anthony$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818859703321 996 $aCommodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750$94001612 997 $aUNINA