دانلود کتاب Pacific Centuries: Pacific and Pacific Rim History Since the 16th Century (Routledge Explorations in Economic History, 12)

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Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 8
List of tables......Page 9
List of contributors......Page 11
Introduction: Pacific centuries emerging......Page 12
Spanish profitability in the Pacific: the Philippines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries......Page 34
The great silk exchange: how the world was connected and developed......Page 49
Islands in the rim: ecology and history in and around the Pacific, 1521 1996......Page 81
Maritime trade and the agro-ecology of South China, 1685 1850......Page 96
Rice is a luxury, not a necessity: the sources of Asian growth......Page 121
Gold rushes and the trans-Pacific wheat trade: California and Australia, 1848 57......Page 136
American trade dollars in nineteenth-century China......Page 163
Alfred Crosby's Ecological Imperialism reconsidered: a case study of European settlement and environmental change on the Pacific Rim......Page 182
Economic motivations for China-United States rapproachment in 1971......Page 199
Migration and perceptions of identity: the case of Singapore and Malaysian perceptions of the Australian identity, 1966 96......Page 235
Index......Page 262