Pacific centuries : Pacific and Pacific Rim economic history since the 16th century / edited by Dennis O. Flynn, Lionel Frost and A.J.H. Latham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flynn, Dennis Owen, 1945-

Frost, Lionel.

Latham, A. J. H.

Series:

Routledge explorations in economic history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Pacific Area--Economic conditions.

Pacific Area.

Pacific Area--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides an overview of five centuries of Pacific and Pacific Rim economic and trade history, making it a valuable contribution to understanding of the increasing global importance of this region.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction: Pacific centuries emerging; Spanish profitability in the Pacific: the Philippines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; The great silk exchange: how the world was connected and developed; Islands in the rim: ecology and history in and around the Pacific, 1521 1996; Maritime trade and the agro-ecology of South China, 1685 1850; Rice is a luxury, not a necessity: the sources of Asian growth; Gold rushes and the trans-Pacific wheat trade: California and Australia, 1848 57

American trade dollars in nineteenth-century ChinaAlfred Crosby's Ecological Imperialism reconsidered: a case study of European settlement and environmental change on the Pacific Rim; Economic motivations for China-United States rapproachment in 1971; Migration and perceptions of identity: the case of Singapore and Malaysian perceptions of the Australian identity, 1966 96; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p.246-49) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-66902-X

0-429-23208-X

1-282-37299-8

9786612372995

1-134-66903-8

0-203-44566-X

9780429232084

OCLC:

59004051