1. Editors' introduction : new perspectives on China, East Asia, and the global economy -- 2. The tribute trade system …. Silver in regional economies and the world economy : East Asia in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries -- 5. The Ryukyu … maritime network from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries : China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia -- 6. Maritime Asia and …

: The cases of Great Britain and China -- HISTORIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION: TRADITIONAL VIEWS AND ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES … -- The persistence of the traditional view: Britain as an emerging free-trade economy -- The persistence of the traditional … view: China as a despotic, 'oriental' empire -- Alternative perspectives: Fiscal-militarism and mercantilism in Britain and …

We apply insights from the political economy of secession to analyse the early years of the Irish Free State (IFS). The …