Hinterlands and commodities place, space, time and the political economic development of Asia over the long eighteenth century / edited by Tsukasa Mizushima, George Bryan Souza, Dennis O. Flynn.

Other author Mizushima, Tsukasa, 1952-
Other author Souza, George Bryan.
Other author Flynn, Dennis Owen, 1945-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden : Brill, 2015.
Descriptionxvi, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Commercial products--Asia. --History. --18th century.
Economic development--Political aspects. --Asia. --History. --18th century.
Merchants--Social networks. --Asia. --History. --18th century.
Port cities--Asia. --History. --18th century.
Regionalism--Economic aspects. --Asia. --History. --18th century.
Space and time--Economic aspects. --Asia. --History. --18th century.
Asia--Commerce. --History. --18th century.
Asia--Politics and government. --18th century.
Asia--Economic conditions. --18th century.
Asia--Geography.

SeriesEuropean expansion and indigenous response, 1873-8974 ; volume 14
Contents Introduction / Tsukasa Mizushima, George Bryan Souza, and Dennis 0. Flynn -- Hinterlands, commodity chains, and circuits in early modern Asian history : sugar in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan / George Bryan Souza -- Hydraulic metaphor : a model of global and local connectivity / Dennis 0. Flynn and Marie A. Lee -- The dynamics of port-hinterland relationships in eighteenth-century Gujarat / Ghulam A. Nadri -- Ports, hinterlands and merchant networks : Armenians in Bengal in the eighteenth century / Bhaswati Bhattacharya -- Linking hinterlands with colonial port towns : Madras and Pondicherry in early modern India / Tsukasa Mizushima -- Maritime Asian trade and colonization of Penang, c. 1786-1830 / Tomotaka Kawamura -- Toward a transborder, market-oriented society : changes in the hinterlands of Banten, c. 1760-1790 / Atsushi Ota -- Hinterlands and port cities in Southeast Asia's economic development in the eighteenth century : the case of tin production and its export trade / Ryuto Shimada -- Crisis in internal hinterlands of China generated by expansion of trade during the 18th century / Ei Murakami.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index.
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LCCN 2014034771
ISBN9789004283886 (hardback : acid-free paper)