History of Regional Trade in Southeast Asia : Singapore as an Entrepot - Atsushi Kobayashi

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History of Regional Trade in Southeast Asia

Name: History of Regional Trade in Southeast Asia
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Singapore as an Entrepot

By: Atsushi Kobayashi

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Hardcover | 31 December 2025 | Edition Number 1

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216 Pages

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23.4 x 15.6 x 1.42

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This book explores maritime Southeast Asiaâs trade development during the long nineteenth century, with a focus on the role of Singapore as a regional trade hub. Classical literature attributes the trade growth in modern Southeast Asia to the progress of Western colonisation and assumed Singaporeâs prosperity as a result of her status as a free port-city for British economic influence over Asia. Challenging this conventional historiography, this monograph sheds fresh light on the role of Singapore as a global entrep´t.

A series of quantitative and qualitative analyses reveals that intra-Southeast Asian trade grew based on Singaporeâs entrep´t functions, such as its ability to act as a financial hub for multilateral trade settlements. Drawing on Singaporeâs foreign trade statistics, including statistics of monetary imports and exports, particularly of silver, and augmented with other quantitative and qualitative sources of newspapers, where available, the book provides readers with a new understanding of Singaporeâs role in intra-regional trade.

In addition to Southeast Asian economic historians, this book will appeal to those working on wider themes such as global history, maritime Asian trade, and colonialism.

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