Pacific Centuries : Pacific and Pacific Rim Economic History Since the 16th Century (Paperback)

Introduction: Pacific Centuries Emerging 1. Spanish Profitability in the Pacific: The Philippines in the 16th and 17th Centuries Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giralez 2. The Great Silk Exchange: How the World was Connected and Developed Debin Ma 3. Islands in the Rim: Ecology and History in and around the Pacific, 1521-1996 John R. McNeill 4. Maritime Trade and the Agro-ecology of South China Robert B. Marks 5. Rice is a Luxury, Not a Necessity: The Sources of Asian Growth A.J.H. Latham Gold Rushes and the Trans-Pacific Wheat Trade: California and Australia, 1848 to 1857 James Gerber 7. American Trade Dollars in Nineteenth Century China David J. St. Clair 8. Alfred Crosby's Ecological Imperialism Reconsidered: A Case Study of European Settlement and Environmental Change on the Pacific Rim Warwick Frost 9. Economic Motivations for China-United States Rapproachment in 1971 Lori Warner 10. Migration and Perceptions of Identity: The Case of Singapore and Malaysian Perceptions of the Australian Identity (1966-1996) Kevin Blackburn