Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750: The Foundations of the Modern Asian ‘Economic Miracle’?....Pages 1-16
Asia in the Growth of World Trade: A Re-interpretation of the ‘Long Nineteenth Century’....Pages 17-58
On the Edge of Asia: Maritime Trade in East Indonesia, Early Seventeenth to Mid-twentieth Century....Pages 59-78
Semarang, a Colonial Provincial Capital and Port City in Java, c.1775....Pages 79-94
Revisiting the ‘Decline of Surat’: Maritime Trade and the Port Complex of Gujarat in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries....Pages 95-111
Western Merchants in the Foreign Settlements of Japan (c.1850–1890)....Pages 112-126
Neglected Orphans and Absent Parents: The European Mercantile Houses of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Java....Pages 127-143
Building Intra-Asian and Transcontinental Mercantile Networks in the Age of the British East India Company: The Rise and Fall of the House of John Palmer....Pages 144-164
Linking Global and Local Networks of Credit and Remittances: Ma Tsui Chiu’s Financial Operations in Hong Kong, 1900s–1950s....Pages 165-178
British Exchange Banks in the International Trade of Asia from 1850 to 1890....Pages 179-197
Transcending the Empire: Western Merchant Houses and Local Capital in the Indian Cotton Trade (1850s–1930s)....Pages 198-217
Holding Back the Tide: Liverpool Shipping, Gentlemanly Capitalism and Intra-Asian Trade in the Twentieth Century....Pages 218-240
Pursuit of Profit in the Shadow of Decolonisation: Indonesia in the 1950s....Pages 241-257
The Chinese and Indian Corporate Economy: A Radical Construction of Law, the State and Corporations....Pages 258-285
Back Matter....Pages 286-318