The Pacific in the age of early industrialization
By: edited by Kenneth L. Pomeranz
Series: The Pacific world -- v. 11
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780754658801; 9780754668572
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The European miracle and the East Asian miracle: towards a new global economic history / Kaoru Sugihara; title: Traditional technology and its impact on Japan's industry during the early period of the Industrial revolution / Erich Pauer; title: Country girls and communication among competitors in the Japanese cotton-spinning industry / Gary R. Saxonhouse; title: Handicraft and manufactured cotton textiles in China, 1871-1910 / Albert Feuerwerker; title: Between cottage and factory: the evolution of Chinese and Japanese silk-reeling industries in the latter half of the nineteenth century / Debin Ma; title: The tribute trade system and modern Asia / Takeshi Hamashita; title: Competition in absentia: China, Japan, and British cotton textiles in Korea: 1876-1910 / Kirk W. Larsen; title: 'Gentlemanly capitalism', intra-Asian trade, and Japanese industrialisation at the turn of the last century / Shigeru Akita; title: Success illgotten? The role of Meiji militarism in Japan's technological progress / Kozo Yamamura; title: Engineering China: birth of the developmental state, 1928-1937 / William C. Kirby; title: Government and the emerging rubber industries in Indonesia and Malaya, 1900-1940 / Colin Barlow and John Drabble; title: A note on the history of the textile industry in West Sumatra / Akira Oki; title: Colonialism and development: Korea, Taiwan, and Kwantung / Samuel Pao-San Ho; title: The industrial far west: region and nation in the late nineteenth century / David Igler; title: Notes on the dawn of manufacturing in Chile / J. Fred Rippy and Jack Pfeiffer.