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Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900 / edited by Debin Ma.

Title
Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900 / edited by Debin Ma.
Publication
Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, c2005.

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Additional Authors
Ma, Debin
Description
xxvii, 354 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Pacific world ; v. 12
Uniform Title
Pacific world ; v. 12.
Subject
  • Textile industry > Asia > History
  • Textile industry > Australia > History
  • Textile industry > History
  • Textile fabrics > History
  • International trade > History
  • Textielindustrie
  • Textielhandel
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. The great silk exchange : how the world was connected and developed / Debin Ma -- 2. Silk for silver : Manila-Macao trade in the 17th century / Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez -- 3. The mechanics of the Macao-Nagasaki silk trade / Michael Cooper -- 4. Silk raising in colonial Mexico : preliminary schemes the decline of silk raising / Woodrow Borah -- 5. Silk culture in California / E.O. Essig -- 6. Pre-modern European silk technology and East Asia : Who imported what? / Claudio Zanier -- 7. Silk-reeling in modern East Asia : internalization and ramifications of local adaptation : in the late 19th century / Kazuko Furuta -- 8. Transplantation of the European factory system and adaptations in Japan : the experience of the Tomioka model filature / Yukihiko Kiyokawa -- 9. The cloth trade in Jambi and Palembang society during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Barbara Watson Andaya -- 10. Textile displacement and the status of women in southeast Asia / Norman Owen -- 11. Inchon trade : Japanes and Chinese merchants and the Shanghai network / Kazuko Furuta -- 12. Industrial concentration and the capital markets : a comparative study of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, 1830-1930 / Stephen H. Haber -- 13. A century and a half of wool marketing / A. Barnard
ISBN
  • 0754640752 (alk. paper)
  • 9780754640752 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2004053740
OCLC
  • 55884876
  • SCSB-12079969
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library