Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • General Editors' Preface
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE
  • SILK ACROSS THE PACIFIC
  • 1 The Great Silk Exchange: How the World was Connected and Developed
  • 2 Silk for Silver: Manila-Macao Trade in the 17th Century
  • 3 The Mechanics of the Macao-Nagasaki Silk Trade
  • 4 Silk Raising in Colonial Mexico: Preliminary Schemes The Decline of Silk Raising
  • 5 Silk Culture in California
  • PART TWO
  • FLOWS OF TECHNOLOGY AND INSTITUTION: EAST AND WEST
  • 6 Pre-Modern European Silk Technology and East Asia: Who Imported What?
  • 7 Silk-Reeling in Modern East Asia: Internationalization and Ramifications of Local Adaptation: In the Late 19th Century
  • 8 Transplantation of the European Factory System and Adaptations in Japan: The Experience of the Tomioka Model Filature
  • PART THREE
  • COTTON AND CLOTH ALONG THE PACIFIC
  • 9 The Cloth Trade in Jambi and Palembang Society during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • 10 Textile Displacement and the Status of Women in Southeast Asia
  • 11 Inchon Trade: Japanese and Chinese Merchants and the Shanghai Network
  • 12 Industrial Concentration and the Capital Markets: a Comparative Study of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, 1830-1930
  • PART FOUR
  • WOOL IN AUSTRALIA
  • 13 A Century and a Half of Wool Marketing
  • Index.