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Pacific centuries : Pacific and Pacific Rim history since the sixteenth century / / edited by Dennis O. Flynn, Lionel Frost and A.J.H. Latham



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Titolo: Pacific centuries : Pacific and Pacific Rim history since the sixteenth century / / edited by Dennis O. Flynn, Lionel Frost and A.J.H. Latham Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
Disciplina: 330.99
Soggetto topico: Economic history
Soggetto geografico: Pacific Area Economic conditions
Pacific Area History
Altri autori: FlynnDennis Owen <1945->  
FrostLionel  
LathamA. J. H  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.246-49) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 57
American 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; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
Altri titoli varianti: Pacific and Pacific Rim history since the 16th century
Titolo autorizzato: Pacific centuries  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-66902-X
0-429-23208-X
1-282-37299-8
9786612372995
1-134-66903-8
0-203-44566-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783980003321
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Serie: Routledge explorations in economic history