Textiles in the Pacific, 1500û1900

by Ma,Debin

• ISBN13: 9780754640752
• ISBN10: 0754640752
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

This volume brings together thirteen articles related to the trade and production of textiles in the Pacific region. Collectively, these articles bring out two central themes: the leading role of textiles in linking up the economies across the Pacific in the era before the 19th-century rise of steam-engine-powered global integration, and the crucial role of textile manufacturing and trade in the early stage of industrialization for most of the developing Pacific economies after the 19th century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
General Editors' Preface	ix
Introduction	xiii
PART ONE SILK ACROSS THE PACIFIC
1 The Great Silk Exchange: How the World was Connected and Developed
Debin Ma	1	(32)
2 Silk for Silver: Manila-Macao Trade in the 17th Century
Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez	33	(18)
3 The Mechanics of the Macao-Nagasaki Silk Trade
Michael Cooper	51	(12)
4 Silk Raising in Colonial Mexico: Preliminary Schemes The Decline of Silk Raising
Woodrow Borah	63	(38)
5 Silk Culture in California
E.O. Essig	101	(4)
PART TWO FLOWS OF TECHNOLOGY AND INSTITUTION: EAST AND WEST
6 Pre-Modern European Silk Technology and East Asia: Who Imported What?
Claudio Zanier	105	(86)
7 Silk-Reeling in Modern East Asia: Internationalization and Ramifications of Local Adaptation: In the Late 19th Century
Kazuko Furuta	191	(30)
8 Transplantation of the European Factory System and Adaptations in Japan: The Experience of the Tomioka Model Filature
Yukihiko Kiyokawa	221	(14)
PART THREE COTTON AND CLOTH ALONG THE PACIFIC
9 The Cloth Trade in Jambi and Palembang Society during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Barbara Watson Andaya	235	(20)
10 Textile Displacement and the Status of Women in Southeast Asia
Norman Owen	255	(30)
11 Inchon Trade: Japanese and Chinese Merchants and the Shanghai Network
Kazuko Furuta	285	(26)
12 Industrial Concentration and the Capital Markets: a Comparative Study of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, 1830-1930
Stephen H. Haber	311	(22)
PART FOUR WOOL IN AUSTRALIA
13 A Century and a Half of Wool Marketing
A. Barnard	333	(16)
Index	349