Modern Global Trade and the Asian Regional Economy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shiroyama, Tomoko (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Asia-History.; Trade.; Business.; Commerce.; Economic History.; Asian History.

This volume undertakes the important task of envisioning a regional history of Asia based on its unique internal characteristics, going beyond the usual West/non-West dichotomy. The "regional trade zone of modern Asia" was debated in the 1980s. Since then, Japanese historians of the socioe...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Asian Merchants and Commodities in the Global Trade of the Modern Era
• 1 Dutch Bank Transactions with Chinese Traders in the Dutch East Indies:The Java Sugar Trade and the 1917 Sugar Crisis (Yuko Kudo)
• 2 The Growth of Intra-Southeast Asian Trade in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: The Role of Middlemen in Singapore (Atsushi Kobayashi)
• 3 The British Atlantic Slave Trade and Indian Cotton Textiles: The Case of Thomas Lumley & Co.(Kazuo Kobayashi)
• 4 The Export of Indian guinée to Senegal via France: Inter-colonial trade in the long nineteenth century (Toyomu Masaki)
• Part II Book Reviews
• 5 Review of Osamu Saitō, Hikaku Keizai Hattenron: Rekishiteki Apurōchi (Comparative Economic Development: A Historical Approach)(Ayumu Banzawa)
• 6 Review of Kaoru Sugihara, Kōhei Wakimura, Kōichi Fujita and Akio Tanabe (eds.), Rekishi no naka no Nettai Seizon ken: Ontai Paradaimu wo Koete (The Tropical Humanosphere in History
• beyond the "Temperate Zone" Paradigm)(Tsukasa Mizushima)
• 7 Review of Mario Ōshima ed., Tochikishōka to Kinbenkakumei no Hikakushi - Keizaishi jō no Kinsei - (Land Scarcity and Industrious Revolutions - Comparative Studies on Early Modern Economies) (Ken'ichi Tomobe)
• 8 Review of Kazuko Furuta ed., Chūgoku no Shijōchitsujo - 17seiki kara 20seiki Zenhan wo Chūshinni (Market Order in China - from the Seventeenth until the First Half of the Twentieth Century)(Hajime Kose)
• Index.