The Straits of Malacca : gateway or gauntlet? / Donald B. Freeman.
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TextPublication details: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 249 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
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- online resource
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- 077357087X
- 1282860984
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- 9786612860980
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- Coastwise shipping -- Malacca, Strait of -- History
- Trade routes -- Malacca, Strait of
- Malacca, Strait of -- Commerce -- History
- Transports maritimes côtiers -- Malacca, Détroit de -- Histoire
- Routes commerciales -- Malacca, Détroit de
- Malacca, Détroit de -- Commerce -- Histoire
- Malacca, Détroit de -- Commerce -- Histoire
- TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding -- Pictorial
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce
- Coastwise shipping
- Commerce
- Trade routes
- Indian Ocean -- Strait of Malacca
- Geopolitik
- Handelsschifffahrt
- Geschichte
- Malakkastraße
- Transports maritimes côtiers -- Malacca, Détroit de -- Histoire
- Routes commerciales -- Malacca, Détroit de
- Malacca, Détroit de -- Commerce -- Histoire
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- HE884.6 .F74 2003eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-244) and index.
The geographic importance of the Straits of Malacca -- Monsoonal circulation and revolutions in shipping and navigation -- Economic-geographic concepts of long-distance trade, spatial duopoly, and network structures -- Concepts and perspectives from political economy -- Practical incentives and the organization of early long-distance trade -- Asian-European trading systems in the Greco-Roman era : the beginnings of monsoon trade -- Monsoon trade in the early fifteenth century : the Empire of Melaka (Malacca) and its precursors -- The Portuguese trading system in monsoon Asia -- The Dutch trading system and Hollands' ascendancy in the Straits of Malacca -- The British East India Company trading system -- Contemporary trading systems : Japan, oil, and the Straits of Malacca -- Controlling transit trade : the entrepot of Melaka -- The founding of British Penang (Pulau Pinang) -- The rise of Singapore as a global entrepot -- Changing local hinterlands and products in the straits region : Sumatran trade -- Local trader hinterlands and products on the Malay coast of the straits -- Natural hazards and navigation in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore -- Piracy in the Straits of Malacca and surrounding seas -- Twentieth-century military conflicts in the straits area -- Traffic congestion, hazardous cargoes, and pollution in the straits in the contemporary period -- Twenty-first-century trade and globalization : the Asia-Pacific region -- Emerging roles of the straits in global and regional commerce -- Conclusion.
Print version record.
For centuries the Straits of Malacca, a narrow waterway between the Malay peninsula and the island of Sumatra, has been both a major conduit for long distance trade between Asia and the West and one of the most dangerous areas for commercial shipping.
English.
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