Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750

Chapter 1 Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750: The Foundations of the Modern Asian ‘Economic Miracle’?

Chapter 2 Asia in the Growth of World Trade: A Re-interpretation of the ‘Long Nineteenth Century’

Chapter 3 On the Edge of Asia: Maritime Trade in East Indonesia, Early Seventeenth to Mid-twentieth Century

Chapter 4 Semarang, a Colonial Provincial Capital and Port City in Java, c.1775

Chapter 5 Revisiting the ‘Decline of Surat’: Maritime Trade and the Port Complex of Gujarat in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 6 Western Merchants in the Foreign Settlements of Japan (c.1850–1890)

Chapter 7 Neglected Orphans and Absent Parents: The European Mercantile Houses of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Java

Chapter 8 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

Chapter 9 Linking Global and Local Networks of Credit and Remittances: Ma Tsui Chiu’s Financial Operations in Hong Kong, 1900s–1950s

Chapter 10 British Exchange Banks in the International Trade of Asia from 1850 to 1890

Chapter 11 Transcending the Empire: Western Merchant Houses and Local Capital in the Indian Cotton Trade (1850s–1930s)

Chapter 13 Pursuit of Profit in the Shadow of Decolonisation: Indonesia in the 1950s

Chapter 14 The Chinese and Indian Corporate Economy: A Radical Construction of Law, the State and Corporations