Author: William Milburn
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Oriental Commerce
Author: William Milburn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Oriental Commerce; Or the East India Trader's Complete Guide
Author:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Oriental Commerce, Or, The East India Trader's Complete Guide
Author: William Milburn
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Early Oriental Commerce in Providence
Author: William Babcock Weeden
Publisher:
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Category : Orient
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Category : Orient
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Penang Chinese Commerce in the 19th Century
Author: Wong Yee Tuan
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
ISBN: 9814695505
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The story of Penang would be incomplete without the Big Five Hokkien families (the Khoo, the Cheah, the Yeoh, the Lim, and the Tan). It was the Big Five who played a preponderant role not only in transforming Penang into a regional entrepot and a business and financial base, but also in reconfiguring maritime trading patterns and the business orientation of the region in the nineteenth century. Departing from the colonial vantage point, this book examines a web of transnational, hybrid and fluid networks of the Big Five comprising of family relationship, sworn brotherhood, political alliance and business partnerships, which linked Penang and its surrounding states (western Malay states, southwestern Siam, southern Burma, and the north and eastern coasts of Sumatra) together to form one economically unified geographical region, having inextricable links to China and India. With these intertwining networks, the Big Five succeeded in establishing their dominance in all the major enterprises (trade, shipping, cash crop planting, tin mining, opium revenue farms), which constituted the linchpin of Penang's and its region's economy. By disentangling and dissecting this intricate web of networks, this book reveals the rise and decline of the Hokkien mercantile families' nearly century-long economic ascendancy in Penang and its region."e;Wong Yee Tuan's study of the five clans of Penang represents a major breakthrough in the study of the Malayan Chinese. He documents an extremely important aspect of the nineteenth-century Asian diaspora, exposing the intricate links between families, businesses, secret societies, revenue farms and public life of some of the key groups of Chinese in Penang and northern Malaya. The book weaves together the various strands of overseas Chinese life not only in Malaya, but also in the Netherlands Indies, Siam and China. Most importantly, it shows the process by which the Chinese leaders gained political, economic and social power as well as the way by which these powers were lost."e;- Carl A. Trocki, Emeritus Professor, Asian Studies, Queensland University of Technology, Australia"e;This volume can be situated within a growing historiographical current whereby regional studies of connections, networks and interactions are gradually transcending national histories. Incorporating commercial, ethnic and social elements, the history presented can be concurrently seen as a business case study, a sociological exploration, a political economy treatise and an inquiry into Hokkien networking. Wong Yee Tuan is to be congratulated on this signal study in how local, national and broader regional histories can be integrated."e;- Geoffrey Wade, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University"e;By aligning family, socio-political and business interests, the leading Penang Hokkien clans centralized their 'home port' as a hub of regional commercial networks, thus successfully extending the trading colonies of Chinese diaspora westward to the edge of the Indian Ocean. Wong has fastidiously researched and compellingly proven this, with a clear eye for relevant cross-cultural collaborations with indigenous and international actors. The important legacy of the 'Big Five' clanhouses is now firmly embedded in the George Town World Heritage Site, inciting further inquiry into the cultural formation of collective entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia."e;- Khoo Salma Nasution, Heritage Advocate and Local Historian, Penang
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
ISBN: 9814695505
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The story of Penang would be incomplete without the Big Five Hokkien families (the Khoo, the Cheah, the Yeoh, the Lim, and the Tan). It was the Big Five who played a preponderant role not only in transforming Penang into a regional entrepot and a business and financial base, but also in reconfiguring maritime trading patterns and the business orientation of the region in the nineteenth century. Departing from the colonial vantage point, this book examines a web of transnational, hybrid and fluid networks of the Big Five comprising of family relationship, sworn brotherhood, political alliance and business partnerships, which linked Penang and its surrounding states (western Malay states, southwestern Siam, southern Burma, and the north and eastern coasts of Sumatra) together to form one economically unified geographical region, having inextricable links to China and India. With these intertwining networks, the Big Five succeeded in establishing their dominance in all the major enterprises (trade, shipping, cash crop planting, tin mining, opium revenue farms), which constituted the linchpin of Penang's and its region's economy. By disentangling and dissecting this intricate web of networks, this book reveals the rise and decline of the Hokkien mercantile families' nearly century-long economic ascendancy in Penang and its region."e;Wong Yee Tuan's study of the five clans of Penang represents a major breakthrough in the study of the Malayan Chinese. He documents an extremely important aspect of the nineteenth-century Asian diaspora, exposing the intricate links between families, businesses, secret societies, revenue farms and public life of some of the key groups of Chinese in Penang and northern Malaya. The book weaves together the various strands of overseas Chinese life not only in Malaya, but also in the Netherlands Indies, Siam and China. Most importantly, it shows the process by which the Chinese leaders gained political, economic and social power as well as the way by which these powers were lost."e;- Carl A. Trocki, Emeritus Professor, Asian Studies, Queensland University of Technology, Australia"e;This volume can be situated within a growing historiographical current whereby regional studies of connections, networks and interactions are gradually transcending national histories. Incorporating commercial, ethnic and social elements, the history presented can be concurrently seen as a business case study, a sociological exploration, a political economy treatise and an inquiry into Hokkien networking. Wong Yee Tuan is to be congratulated on this signal study in how local, national and broader regional histories can be integrated."e;- Geoffrey Wade, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University"e;By aligning family, socio-political and business interests, the leading Penang Hokkien clans centralized their 'home port' as a hub of regional commercial networks, thus successfully extending the trading colonies of Chinese diaspora westward to the edge of the Indian Ocean. Wong has fastidiously researched and compellingly proven this, with a clear eye for relevant cross-cultural collaborations with indigenous and international actors. The important legacy of the 'Big Five' clanhouses is now firmly embedded in the George Town World Heritage Site, inciting further inquiry into the cultural formation of collective entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia."e;- Khoo Salma Nasution, Heritage Advocate and Local Historian, Penang
The Commercial Orient in 1905, Showing the Trade of Each Oriental Country, the Chief Countries Participating Therein, the Principal Articles Imported and Exported, and Details of Trade of the United States with Each of These Countries During a Term of Years
Author: United States. Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Statistics
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Publisher:
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Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The Commercial Orient in 1905 ... 1906
Author: United States. Statistics Bureau. (Commerce and Labor Department )
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Oriental Commerce
Author: William Milburn
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Commercial Prize of the Orient
Author: Oscar Phelps Austin
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The World of Sugar
Author: Ulbe Bosma
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674279395
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for Eastern emperors, stoked a mania in the West, transforming diets and ecosystems, destroying and creating cultures, and shaping the history of bondage and freedom. A major source of calories only since 1900, sugar has suddenly revolutionized our world.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674279395
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for Eastern emperors, stoked a mania in the West, transforming diets and ecosystems, destroying and creating cultures, and shaping the history of bondage and freedom. A major source of calories only since 1900, sugar has suddenly revolutionized our world.