History of Regional Trade in Southeast Asia - Kobayashi, Atsushi
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This book explores maritime Southeast Asia's trade development during the long 19th century, with a focus on the role of Singapore as a regional trade hub. Classical literature attributes the trade growth in modern Southeast Asia to the progress of Western colonization and assumed Singapore's prosperity as a result of her status as a free port-city for British economic influence over Asia. Challenging this conventional historiography, this monograph sheds fresh light on the role of Singapore as a global entrepôt. A series of quantitative and qualitative analyses reveal that intra-Southeast…mehr

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This book explores maritime Southeast Asia's trade development during the long 19th century, with a focus on the role of Singapore as a regional trade hub. Classical literature attributes the trade growth in modern Southeast Asia to the progress of Western colonization and assumed Singapore's prosperity as a result of her status as a free port-city for British economic influence over Asia. Challenging this conventional historiography, this monograph sheds fresh light on the role of Singapore as a global entrepôt. A series of quantitative and qualitative analyses reveal that intra-Southeast Asian trade grew based on Singapore's entrepôt functions, such as its ability to act as a financial hub for multilateral trade settlements. Drawing on Singapore's foreign trade-statistics, including statistics of monetary imports and exports, particularly of silver, and augmented with other quantitative and qualitative sources of newspapers, where available, the book provides readers with a new understanding of Singapore's role in intra-regional trade. In addition to Southeast Asian economic historians, this book will also appeal to those working on wider themes such as global history, maritime Asian trade, and colonialism.
Autorenporträt
Atsushi Kobayashi is Associate Professor at Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University, Japan. His research into Asian economic history has been granted by funding from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Suntory Foundation, and JFE 21st Century Foundation.