The Straits of Malacca [electronic resource] : gateway or gauntlet? / Donald B. Freeman.
By: Freeman, Donald B.
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BookPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003Description: xxiv, 249 p. : ill., maps.Subject(s): Coastwise shipping -- Malacca, Strait of -- History | Trade routes -- Malacca, Strait of | Transports maritimes c�otiers -- Malacca, D�etroit de -- Histoire | Routes commerciales -- Malacca, D�etroit de | Malacca, D�etroit de -- Commerce -- Histoire | Malacca, Strait of -- Commerce -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 387.5/24/0916565 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-244) and index.
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.
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