The Straits of Malacca gateway or gauntlet? /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freeman, Donald B.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003.
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245 1 4 |a The Straits of Malacca  |h [electronic resource] :  |b gateway or gauntlet? /  |c Donald B. Freeman. 
260 |a Montreal :  |b McGill-Queen's University Press,  |c c2003. 
300 |a xxiv, 249 p. :  |b ill., maps. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-244) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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