UID:
almafu_9959235386602883
Format:
1 online resource (272 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-66902-X
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0-429-23208-X
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1-282-37299-8
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9786612372995
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1-134-66903-8
,
0-203-44566-X
Series Statement:
Routledge explorations in economic history
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-75751-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-18431-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203445662
