The Straits of Malacca gateway or gauntlet? /
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| Formato: | Recurso Eletrônico livro eletrônico |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
c2003.
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Sumário:
- The geographic importance of the Straits of Malacca
- Monsoonal circulation and revolutions in shipping and navigation
- Economic-geographic concepts of long-distance trade, spatial duopoly, and network structures
- Concepts and perspectives from political economy
- Practical incentives and the organization of early long-distance trade
- Asian-European trading systems in the Greco-Roman era : the beginnings of monsoon trade
- Monsoon trade in the early fifteenth century : the Empire of Melaka (Malacca) and its precursors
- The Portuguese trading system in monsoon Asia
- The Dutch trading system and Hollands' ascendancy in the Straits of Malacca
- The British East India Company trading system
- Contemporary trading systems : Japan, oil, and the Straits of Malacca
- Controlling transit trade : the entrepot of Melaka
- The founding of British Penang (Pulau Pinang)
- The rise of Singapore as a global entrepot
- Changing local hinterlands and products in the straits region : Sumatran trade
- Local trader hinterlands and products on the Malay coast of the straits
- Natural hazards and navigation in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore
- Piracy in the Straits of Malacca and surrounding seas
- Twentieth-century military conflicts in the straits area
- Traffic congestion, hazardous cargoes, and pollution in the straits in the contemporary period
- Twenty-first-century trade and globalization : the Asia-Pacific region
- Emerging roles of the straits in global and regional commerce
- Conclusion.