This volume undertakes the important task of envisioning a regional history of Asia based on its unique internal characteristics, going beyond the usual West/no

In Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia, the contributors put together an important and lucid study of overseas Chinese and Indian merchants and their im

Reveals how global trade shaped early modern economic, social and political development, and inaugurated the first era of globalization.

This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countri