Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c.1585 - 1800 : Merchants, Commodities and Commerce (Hardcover, New ed)

Contents: Preface; Part I Introduction: Maritime trade and politics in China and the South China Sea. Part II Portuguese and Other Merchants and Administrators: Portuguese country traders in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, c. 1600; Imperial defense and finance and the colonial city in the tropics: the Senado da Camara of Cochin and the relief of Malacca, 1587-1598; Commerce and capital: Portuguese maritime losses in the South China Sea, 1600-1754; Portuguese colonial administrators and inter-Asian maritime trade: Manuel de Sousa de Meneses and the Fateh Moula affair; Agency, monopoly, and commerce: the administrators of the Junta do Tobaco in Asia and the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and global economies, 1674 to 1774; The VOC’s price current records in the long 18th century: commodities and prices in global, intra-Asian and regional Asian maritime economic history; An anatomy of commerce and consumption: opium and merchants at Batavia over the long 18th century. Part III Commodities and Commerce: Ballast goods: Chinese maritime trade in zinc and sugar in the 17th and 18th centuries; Country trade and Chinese alum: raw material supply and demand in Asia’s textile production in the 17th and 18th centuries; Developing habits: opium and tobacco in the Indonesian archipelago, c. 1619-c. 1794; Opium and the Company: maritime trade and imperial finances on Java, 1684-1796; Global commodities and commerce in the Early Modern world: the case of Sri Lankan cinnamon; Index.