03171nam a2200421 a 4500 ebr10132868 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 040708s2003 qucab sb 001 0 eng d 2004401056 20029050138 0773525157 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)76898709 as----- HE884.6 .F74 2003eb HC441 HC441 F74 2003 HC441 F74 2003 387.5/24/0916565 21 Freeman, Donald B. The Straits of Malacca [electronic resource] : gateway or gauntlet? / Donald B. Freeman. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003. xxiv, 249 p. : ill., maps. Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-244) and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Coastwise shipping Malacca, Strait of History. Trade routes Malacca, Strait of. Transports maritimes c�otiers Malacca, D�etroit de Histoire. Routes commerciales Malacca, D�etroit de. Malacca, D�etroit de Commerce Histoire. Malacca, Strait of Commerce History. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10132868 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 79123 79123