Textiles in the Pacific, 1500–1900

Debin Ma is a Fellow in the Graduate Program of the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, and Associate Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

Contents: Introduction. Part I Silk across the Pacific: The great silk exchange: how the world was connected and developed, Debin Ma; Silk for silver: Manila-Macao trade in the 17th century, Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez; The mechanics of the Macao-Nagasaki silk trade, Michael Cooper; Silk raising in colonial Mexico: preliminary schemes, the decline of silk raising, Woodrow Borah; Silk culture in California, E.O. Essig. Part II Flows of Technology and Institution: East and West: Pre-modern European silk technology and East Asia: who imported what?, Claudio Zanier; Silk-reeling in modern East Asia: internationalization and ramifications of local adaptation: in the late 19th century, Kazuko Furuta; Transplantation of the European factory system and adaptations in Japan: the experience of the Tomioka model filature, Yukihiko Kiyokawa. Part III Cotton and Cloth along the Pacific: The cloth trade in Jambi and Palembang society during the 17th and 18th centuries, Barbara Watson Andaya; Textile displacement and the status of women in Southeast Asia, Norman Owen; Inchon trade: Japanese and Chinese merchants and the Shanghai network, Kazuko Furuta; Industrial concentration and the capital markets: a comparative study of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, 1830-1930, Stephen H. Haber. Part 4 Wool in Australia: A century and a half of wool marketing, A. Barnard. Index.