TY - BOOK AU - Ma,Debin TI - Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900 T2 - The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900 Series SN - 9781351895606 AV - 2004053740 U1 - 382/.45677/00950903 PY - 2005/// CY - Oxford PB - Taylor & Francis Group KW - Textile industry - Australia - History KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - This volume brings together thirteen articles related to the trade and production of textiles in the Pacific region. Collectively, these articles bring out two central themes: the leading role of textiles in linking up the economies across the Pacific in the era before the 19th-century rise of steam-engine-powered global integration, and the crucial role of textile manufacturing and trade in the early stage of industrialization for most of the developing Pacific economies after the 19th century UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4816794 ER -