1st Edition
Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market
Foreword Peter Mathias 1. China’s Overseas Trade Policy and its Historical Results 1540-1840 Shi Zhihong 2. The Golden Age of Japanese Copper: The Intra-Asian Copper Trade of the Dutch East India Company Ryuto Shimada 3. Inter-Asian Competition in the Fur Market in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Chikashi Takahashi 4. The Japanese Acquisition of Maritime Technology from the United Kingdom Masami Kita 5. Inter-Asian Competition in the World Market for Silk, 1859-1929 Shinsuke Kaneko 6. Inter-Asian Competition in the Sugar Market, 1890-1941 Takashi Kume 7. Rival Merchants: The Korean Market in the Late Nineteenth Century Sooyoon Lee 8. The Rice Trade between Siam and Singapore in the Late Nineteenth Century: Tan Kim Ching and Siam 'Garden Rice' Toshiyuki Miyata 9. The Rangoon Gazette and Inter-Asian Competition in the Intra-Asian Rice Trade, 1920-1941 A.J.H. Latham 10. Japanese Competition in the Congo Basin in the 1930s Katsuhiko Kitagawa 11. Shifting Patterns of Multilateral Settlements in the Asia-Pacific Regions in the 1930s Masafumi Yomoda 12. Inter-Asian Competition for the British Market in Cotton Textiles: The Political Economy of Anglo-Asian Cartels, c.1932-1960 David Clayton 13. An Edible Oil for the World: Malaysian and Indonesian Competition for the Palm Oil Trade, 1945-2000 Susan Martin
Biography
A.J.H. Latham retired as Senior Lecturer in International Economic History at the University of Wales, Swansea, in 2003. His recent books include Rice: The Primary Commodity. He co-edited (with Kawakatsu) Asia Pacific Dynamism, 1550–2000 (both are published by Routledge)., Heita Kawakatsu is Vice-Director of the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, and Professor of Economic History there. His publications in Japanese include Japanese Civilisation and the Modern West, and he recently edited. A History of the Asia Pacific Economy, 1500–2000.
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