Intra-Asian Trade and Industrialization

<p>Under the impressive editorship of A.J.H. Latham and comprising high quality essays on a topic of rising interest to scholars and policymakers, this volume makes some valuable contributions to regional and global dynamics of trade.</p><p>With contributions from leading names in the field of economic history - such as D.A. Farnie - this book will be useful reading for scholars interested in global economic history, globalization and regional trade, and Asian studies.</p> <p>Introduction <em>A.J.H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu </em> <strong>Part 1</strong> 1. An interview with Yasukichi Yasuba <em>A.J.H. Latham </em>2. Real Wages in the Early Stages of Industrialization: Japan 1885-1915 <em>Yasukichi Yasuba <strong> </strong></em><strong>Part 2</strong> 3. The VOC’s Price Current Records in the Long Eighteenth Century: Commodities and Prices in Global, Intra-Asian and Regional Asian Maritime Economic History <em>George Bryan Souza </em>4. Siamese Trade in Agricultural Products with Japan and China in the Eighteenth Century <em>Ryoto Shimada</em> <strong>Part 3 </strong> 5. The Cotton Harvest of India and the World Market 1770-2005 <em>D.A. Farnie </em> 6. Cotton Improvement Projects in Japan and Korea <em>Chisako Tsuji </em>7. The Cotton Improvement Project prior to 1920 in China <em>Masataka Setobayashi </em>8. The Cotton Improvement Project in Turkey. The case of Adana from the 1930s <em>Yuko Hisa</em> 9. Chinese National Raw Silk Output prior to 1840 <em>Li Zhang </em><strong>Part 4</strong> 10. Intra-regional Trade in China: An Analysis of Chinese Maritime Customs Statistics <em>Hajime Kose</em> 11. Scottish Shipping in Nineteenth Century Asia <em>Masami Kita </em> <strong>Part 5</strong> 12. Climatic fluctuations and the International Rice Trade: A Preliminary Investigation <em>A.J.H. Latham </em>13. The Global Wheat Trade and the Industrialization of Monsoon Asia, 1951-2001 <em>Shinsuke Kaneko</em> </p>