British economic interests and the international order of Asia in the 1930s / Shigeru Akita -- British imperialism in Asia and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1930s-1950s / Yoichi Kibata -- The formation of an industrialization-oriented monetary order in East Asia / Kaoru Sugihara -- The...

"This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical foundations and dynamic experiences of early modern imperialism. The imperial encounter with political economy was neither uniform across political, economic, cultural, and religious constellations nor static across time....