Promises and Predicaments

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Indonesia’s trajectory towards successful economic growth has been long and capricious. Studies of the process often focus either on the Netherlands Indies or

The American Merchant Experience in Nineteenth Century Japan

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American merchants established trading firms in the ports of Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki which operated from 1859-1899 until the repeal of the Unequal Treaties.

The Pacific in the Age of Early Industrialization

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The essays selected for this volume show how the Pacific rapidly became part of an industrializing world. Its raw materials (notably rubber and copper) were cri

Gentlemanly Capitalism, Imperialism and Global History

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British imperial history can now be seen as a bridge to global history. This study tries to renew the debate on British imperialism by combining Western and Asi

An East Asian Route of Industrialization? The Case of Japan, 1868-1937

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The idea has become popular that industrialisation in East Asia, in particular Japan, was fundamentally differently from Western industrialization because it wo