The Pacific in the age of early industrialization /
The Pacific in the age of early industrialization /
Pacific in the age of early industrialisation
edited by Kenneth L. Pomeranz.
- liv, 379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Pacific world ; v. 11 .
- Pacific world ; v. 11. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The European miracle and the East Asian miracle: towards a new global economic history / Traditional technology and its impact on Japan's industry during the early period of the industrial revolution / Country girls and communication among competitors in the Japanese cotton-spinning industry / Handicraft and manufactured cotton textiles in China, 1871 - 1910 / Between cottage and factory: the evolution of Chinese and Japanese silk-reeling industries in the latter half of the 19th century / The tribute trade system and modern Asia / Competition in absentia: China, Japan, and British cotton textiles in Korea: 1876 - 1910 / ''Gentlemanly capitalism'', intra-Asian trade, and Japanese industrialization at the turn of the last century / Success ill-gotten? The role of Meiji militarism in Japan''s technological process / Engineering China: birth of the developmental state, 1928 - 1937 / Government and the emerging rubber industries in Indonesia and Malaya, 1900 - 1940 / A note on the history of the textile industry in West Sumatra / Colonialism and development: Korea, Taiwan, and Kwangtung / The industrial far West: region and nation in the late 19th century / Kaoru Sugihara -- Erich Pauer -- Gary R. Saxonhouse -- Albert Feuerwerker -- Debin Ma -- Takeshi Hamashita -- Kirk W. Larsen -- Shigeru Akita -- Kozo Yamamura -- William C. Kirby -- Colin Barlow and John Drabble -- Akira Oki -- Samuel Pao-san Ho -- David Igler.
"The essays selected for this volume show how the Pacific rapidly became part of an industrializing world. Its raw materials (notably rubber and copper) were critical, some of its handicraft industries were devastated by mechanized competition, others survived and adapted, contributing to distinctive patterns of industrialization that made Japan a new center of power, and also laid the groundwork for later growth in Taiwan, Korea, and coastal China. The Pacific coast of the Americas was also first drawn into an industrial world largely as an exporter of raw materials, but North and South diverged rapidly, portending futures even more different than those of Northeast and Southeast Asia. By the 1930s - when the uneven effects of industrialization would have much to do with plunging the Pacific into war - one can already glimpse in outline the structural bases for many of the region's contemporary characteristics."--Publisher's website.
0754658805 9780754658801
Industrialization--History--Pacific Area--19th century.
Industrialization--History--Pacific Area--20th century.
Pacific Area--Economic conditions--19th century.
Pacific Area--Economic conditions--20th century.
HC681 / .P275 2009
330.9182308
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The European miracle and the East Asian miracle: towards a new global economic history / Traditional technology and its impact on Japan's industry during the early period of the industrial revolution / Country girls and communication among competitors in the Japanese cotton-spinning industry / Handicraft and manufactured cotton textiles in China, 1871 - 1910 / Between cottage and factory: the evolution of Chinese and Japanese silk-reeling industries in the latter half of the 19th century / The tribute trade system and modern Asia / Competition in absentia: China, Japan, and British cotton textiles in Korea: 1876 - 1910 / ''Gentlemanly capitalism'', intra-Asian trade, and Japanese industrialization at the turn of the last century / Success ill-gotten? The role of Meiji militarism in Japan''s technological process / Engineering China: birth of the developmental state, 1928 - 1937 / Government and the emerging rubber industries in Indonesia and Malaya, 1900 - 1940 / A note on the history of the textile industry in West Sumatra / Colonialism and development: Korea, Taiwan, and Kwangtung / The industrial far West: region and nation in the late 19th century / Kaoru Sugihara -- Erich Pauer -- Gary R. Saxonhouse -- Albert Feuerwerker -- Debin Ma -- Takeshi Hamashita -- Kirk W. Larsen -- Shigeru Akita -- Kozo Yamamura -- William C. Kirby -- Colin Barlow and John Drabble -- Akira Oki -- Samuel Pao-san Ho -- David Igler.
"The essays selected for this volume show how the Pacific rapidly became part of an industrializing world. Its raw materials (notably rubber and copper) were critical, some of its handicraft industries were devastated by mechanized competition, others survived and adapted, contributing to distinctive patterns of industrialization that made Japan a new center of power, and also laid the groundwork for later growth in Taiwan, Korea, and coastal China. The Pacific coast of the Americas was also first drawn into an industrial world largely as an exporter of raw materials, but North and South diverged rapidly, portending futures even more different than those of Northeast and Southeast Asia. By the 1930s - when the uneven effects of industrialization would have much to do with plunging the Pacific into war - one can already glimpse in outline the structural bases for many of the region's contemporary characteristics."--Publisher's website.
0754658805 9780754658801
Industrialization--History--Pacific Area--19th century.
Industrialization--History--Pacific Area--20th century.
Pacific Area--Economic conditions--19th century.
Pacific Area--Economic conditions--20th century.
HC681 / .P275 2009
330.9182308