Traces the history of modern migration against the background of empires, their dissolution and the onset of modernity.
"Laurence Sulivan embodied the East India Company. He lived at its heart in the City of London and controlled a vast commercial and political empire during Britain's eighteenth century financial revolution and rise to supremacy in India and Southeast Asia. He fought to ensure th…
"A biography of an almost of a seemingly forgotten yet singularly important eighteenth century figure, this book includes revealing insights into the business and political landscape of his day, and explores both his professional and personal life, essential for histories of Bri…
"The future growth and development of Asia - the most dynamic economic region in the world today - will have important implications for the rest of the global economy. This book offers a futuristic perspective of a wide array of developmental challenges and opportunities facing …
"The future growth and development of Asia - the most dynamic economic region in the world today - will have important implications for the rest of the global economy. This book offers a futuristic perspective of a wide array of developmental challenges and opportunities facing …
These articles focus on the Far East, which has always been the author's interest, but other regions receive attention too. For nearly two centuries the VOC was the greatest mercantile corporation in the world; a massive organization which confessedly had "trade as its compass a…
Table of contents: Part I. The fall of Hormuz, a comparative study. Part II. The loss of Hormuz. People and events. Part III. After Hormuz. Conclusion. Appendix, currency and weights. Manuscript sources. Printed sources and modern works. Index. Tables. Maps. Diagram.
"The first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial, and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, Asia Inside Out: Changing Times brings into focus the diverse networks and dynamic developments that have linked peoples from Japan to Yemen over the past five centuri…
