Asian Trade Routes

1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-7007-0212-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Reihe: NIAS

First Published in 2004. These essays deal with the Western penetration of Asia from the earliest times to the recent past in the quest for trade, and by means of opening up routes and communications to bridge East and West, thereby influencing societies, economies and cultures. The relevant sections cover West Asia, Central Asia and Afghanistan, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haellquist

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Internationaler Handel
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Außenhandel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Asian Trade Routes: Evidence and Patterns 2 The Flow of Precious Metals along the Trade Routes between Europe and Asia up to 1800 WEST ASIA 3 Ugarit: a Bronze Age Hansa? 4 Duplicate Systems of Trade: a Key Element in Mesopotamian History 5 Trade and Trade Routes of the Quraysh 6 Trade Routes in Early Nineteenth Syria and Lebanon CENTRAL ASIA AND AFGHANISTAN 7 Through the Sayan Mountains: Trade Routes between Mongolia and Siberia 8 Some Aspects of Trade in Badakhshan (Afghanistan) 9 Problems of Settlement of the Eastern Wakhan Valley and the Discoveries made there in 1975 SOUTH ASIA 10 Asian Merchants and European Expansion: Malabar Pepper Trade Routes in the Indian Ocean World-System in the Sixteenth Century 11 Trade between Mughal India and the Middle East, and Mughal Monetary Policy 12 Country Trade under Danish Colours: a Study of Economics and Politics around 1800 13 Danish Country Trade Routes in Asian Waters in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries SOUTHEAST ASIA 14 Beads and Bronzes: Archaeological Indicators of Trade between Thailand and the Early Buddhist Civilization of Northern India 15 Traditional Trading Networks of Southeast Asia 16 French - Indo-Chinese Trade Relations 1885 -1930: with Special Reference to the Textile Trade EAST ASIA 17 Yunnan Trade in Han Times: Transit, Tribute and Trivia 18 From Pirates to Merchants: the VOC's Trading Policy towards Japan during the 1620s 19 The Cargo of Broadcloth carried in the East India Company's Eighth Voyage 20 The Eisch-oek in Dutch - Japanese Trade 21 The First Trade Routes and Relations between Japan and Mexico 22 The Age of Suqua, 1720-1759: the Early Hong Merchants 23 Chinese Trade with Batavia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: a Preliminary Report 24 Domestic Sea-borne Trade along the China Coast at the beginning of the Eighteenth Century

Über Autor(innen)

Karl Reinhold Haellquist, a Senior Research Fellow at the Scandinavian (Nordic) Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, also heads the information unit of the Institute.