Pacific Centuries: Pacific and Pacific Rim Economic History Since the 16th Century

by Flynn,Dennis O.

• ISBN13: 9780415184311
• ISBN10: 0415184312
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The editors ofPacific Centuriesprovide an overview of five centuries of Pacific and Pacific Rim history, making a valuable contribution to the understanding of this region and its increasing global significance.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii	(1)
List of tables	viii	(2)
List of contributors	x
Introduction: Pacific centuries emerging	1	(22)
DENNIS O. FLYNN
LIONEL FROST
A.J.H. LATHAM
1 Spanish profitability in the Pacific: the Philippines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries	23	(15)
DENNIS O. FLYNN
ARTURO GIRALDEZ
2 The great silk exchange: how the world was connected and developed	38	(32)
DEBIN MA
3 Islands in the rim: ecology and history in and around the Pacific, 1521-1996	70	(15)
JOHN R. MCNEILL
4 Maritime trade and the agro-ecology of South China, 1685-1850	85	(25)
ROBERT B. MARKS
5 Rice is a luxury, not a necessity: the sources of Asian growth	110	(15)
A.J.H. LATHAM
6 Gold rushes and the trans-Pacific wheat trade: California and Australia, 1848-57	125	(27)
JAMES GERBER
7 American trade dollars in nineteenth-century China	152	(19)
DAVID J. ST. CLAIR
8 Alfred Crosby's Ecological Imperialism reconsidered: a case study of European settlement and environmental change on the Pacific Rim	171	(17)
WARWICK FROST
9 Economic motivations for China-United States rapproachment in 1971	188	(36)
LORI WARNER
10 Migration and perceptions of identity: the case of Singapore and Malaysian perceptions of the Australian identity, 1966-96	224	(27)
KEVIN BLACKBURN
Index	251