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.

• Superior document: European expansion and indigenous response, v. 14
• TeilnehmendeR: Mizushima, Tsukasa, 1952-; Souza, George Bryan.; Flynn, Dennis O.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: European Expansion and Indigenous Response 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Hinterlands and Commodities: Place, Space, Time and the Political Economic Development of Asia over the Long Eighteenth Century , well-known economic and social historians examine important questions concerning temporal and spatial relationships among central places, hinterlands, commodities, and political economic developments in Asia and the Global economy over the long eighteenth century. These timely essays engage hinterlands and commodities providing novel foci on historical impacts maritime trade on political economic developments involving place, space, and time in Asia, thereby furnishing historical background for current conditions. They contribute to discourse concerning historical interactions among indigenous Asian merchant activities and European commercial counterparts. Contributors are: George Bryan Souza, Dennis O. Flynn, Marie A. Lee, Ghulam A. Nadri, Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Tsukasa Mizushima, Tomotaka Kawamura, Atushi Ota, Ryuto Shimada, and Ei Murakami.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Tsukasa Mizushima , George Bryan Souza and Dennis O. Flynn -- Introduction / Tsukasa Mizushima , George Bryan Souza and Dennis O. 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 O. 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 -- Trade and Crisis: China's Hinterlands in the Eighteenth Century / Ei Murakami -- Bibliography / Tsukasa Mizushima , George Bryan Souza and Dennis O. Flynn -- Index / Tsukasa Mizushima , George Bryan Souza and Dennis O. Flynn.