East Asian industrialisation has shown that modern industry has occurred across different cultures under a variety of factor-endowment conditions. The global history of the diffusion of industrialisation over the past two centuries suggests two distinct routes. The first is the 'Western path'...

This paper explores the ways in which global resource allocation affected the pattern of Japanese (and later East Asia’s) industrialisation, and how it eventually came to underpin the course of Japanese imperialism and aggression in the 1930s.

Modern Asian economic history has often been written in terms of Western impact and Asia's response to it. This volume argues that the growth of intra-regional trade, migration, and capital and money flows was a crucial factor that determined the course of East Asian economic development. Twelve...

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