Hinterlands and Commodities
Subtitle: Place, Space, Time and the Political Economic Development of Asia over the Long Eighteenth Century
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9789004283909
Description: "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."--