The Straits of Malacca
Subtitle: gateway or gauntlet?
By: Donald B. Freeman.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Coastwise shipping -- Malacca, Strait of -- History.; Trade routes -- Malacca, Strait of.; Transports maritimes côtiers -- Malacca, Détroit de -- Histoire.; Routes commerciales -- Malacca, Détroit de.; Malacca, Détroit de -- Commerce -- Histoire.; Malacca, Strait of -- Commerce -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: The geographic importance of the Straits of Malacca; title: Monsoonal circulation and revolutions in shipping and navigation; title: Economic-geographic concepts of long-distance trade, spatial duopoly, and network structures; title: Concepts and perspectives from political economy; title: Practical incentives and the organization of early long-distance trade; title: Asian-European trading systems in the Greco-Roman era : the beginnings of monsoon trade; title: Monsoon trade in the early fifteenth century : the Empire of Melaka (Malacca) and its precursors; title: The Portuguese trading system in monsoon Asia; title: The Dutch trading system and Hollands' ascendancy in the Straits of Malacca; title: The British East India Company trading system; title: Contemporary trading systems : Japan, oil, and the Straits of Malacca; title: Controlling transit trade : the entrepot of Melaka; title: The founding of British Penang (Pulau Pinang); title: The rise of Singapore as a global entrepot; title: Changing local hinterlands and products in the straits region : Sumatran trade; title: Local trader hinterlands and products on the Malay coast of the straits; title: Natural hazards and navigation in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore; title: Piracy in the Straits of Malacca and surrounding seas; title: Twentieth-century military conflicts in the straits area; title: Traffic congestion, hazardous cargoes, and pollution in the straits in the contemporary period; title: Twenty-first-century trade and globalization : the Asia-Pacific region; title: Emerging roles of the straits in global and regional commerce; title: Conclusion.