Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750

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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

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