Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ulbe Bosma, Anthony Webster |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 950 |
Collana | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series |
Soggetto topico |
Asia-History
Imperialism Economic history History, Modern Asian History Imperialism and Colonialism Economic History Modern History |
ISBN | 1-137-46392-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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
5 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 10 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797769403321 |
London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 | ||
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Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ulbe Bosma, Anthony Webster |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 950 |
Collana | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series |
Soggetto topico |
Asia-History
Imperialism Economic history History, Modern Asian History Imperialism and Colonialism Economic History Modern History |
ISBN | 1-137-46392-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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
5 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 10 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818859703321 |
London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 | ||
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The hidden alternative [[electronic resource] ] : co-operative values, past, present and future / / edited by Anthony Webster ... [et al.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : United Nations University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (378 p.) |
Disciplina | 334 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WebsterAnthony |
Soggetto topico |
Cooperative societies
Cooperation |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 92-808-7182-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The hidden alternative? / Anthony Webster, Linda Shaw, David Stewart, John K. Walton and Alyson Brown -- Co-operativism meets city ethics : the 1997 Lanica take-over bid for CWS / John F. Wilson -- Values and vocation : educating the co-operative workforce, 1918-39 / Keith Vernon -- International perspectives on co-operative education / Linda Shaw -- Co-operative education in Britain during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : context, identity and learning / Tom Woodin -- Beyond a fair price / Samantha Lacey -- Negotiating consumer and producer interests : a challenge for the co-operative movement and fair trade / Katarina Friberg -- "A party within a party" : the co-operative party-labour party alliance and the formation of the social democratic party, 1974-81 / David Stewart -- The creation of new entities : stakeholders and shareholders in nineteenth-century Italian co-operatives / Patrizia Battilani -- Co-operatives and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa : contradictions and challenges / Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams -- Community, individuality and co-operation : the centrality of values / Ian MacPherson -- An alternative co-operative tradition : the Basque co-operatives of Mondragón / Fernando Molina and John K. Walton -- "A co-operative of intellectuals" : the encounter between co-operative values and urban planning : an Italian case study / Marzia Maccaferri -- Government to governance : the challenge of co-operative revival in India / L. K. Vaswani -- Minding the GAAP : co-operative responses to the global convergence of accounting standards and practice / John Maddocks, Elizabeth Hicks, Alan J. Robb and Tom Webb -- Resting on laurels : examining the resilience of co-operative values in times of calm and crisis / Jan Myers, John Maddocks and James Beecher -- Shared visions of co-operation at a time of crisis : the Gung Ho story in China's anti-Japanese resistance / Ian G. Cook and Jenny Clegg -- The hidden alternative : conclusion / Ed Mayo -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463144903321 |
New York, : United Nations University Press, 2012 | ||
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