{"product_id":"9781041092230","title":"History of Regional Trade in Southeast Asia : Singapore as an Entrepot by Atsushi Kobayashi","description":"This book explores maritime Southeast Asia's trade development during the long 19th century, with a focus on the role of Singapore as a regional trade hub. Classical literature attributes the trade growth in modern Southeast Asia to the progress of Western colonization and assumed Singapore's prosperity as a result of her status as a free port-city for British economic influence over Asia. Challenging this conventional historiography, this monograph sheds fresh light on the role of Singapore as a global entrep?t.   A series of quantitative and qualitative analyses reveal that intra-Southeast Asian trade grew based on Singapore's entrep?t functions, such as its ability to act as a financial hub for multilateral trade settlements. Drawing on Singapore's foreign trade-statistics, including statistics of monetary imports and exports, particularly of silver, and augmented with other quantitative and qualitative sources of newspapers, where available, the book provides readers with a new understanding of Singapore's role in intra-regional trade.   In addition to Southeast Asian economic historians, this book will also appeal to those working on wider themes such as global history, maritime Asian trade, and colonialism.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368552444277,"sku":"9781041092230","price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781041092230","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}