The Pacific in the age of early industrialization / edited by Kenneth L. Pomeranz.

A la cabeza del título: The Pacific World: lands, peoples and history of the Pacific, 1500-1900.

Incluye bibliografía.

The European miracle and the East Asian miracle: towards a new global economic history / Kaoru Sugihara -- Traditional technology and its impact on Japan´s industry during the early period of the Industrial revolution / Erich Pauer -- Country girls and communication among competitors in the Japanese cotton-spinning industry / Gary R. Saxonhouse -- Handicraft and manufactured cotton textiles in China, 1871-1910 / Albert Feuerwerker -- Between cottage and factory: the evolution of Chinese and Japanese silk-reeling industries in the latter half of the nineteenth century / Debin Ma -- The tribute trade system and modern Asia / Takeshi Hamashita -- Competition in absentia: China, Japan, and British cotton textiles in Korea: 1876-1910 / Kirk W. Larsen -- ´Gentlemanly capitalism´, intra-Asian trade, and Japanese industrialisation at the turn of the last century / Shigeru Akita -- Success illgotten? The role of Meiji militarism in Japan´s technological progress / Kozo Yamamura -- Engineering China: birth of the developmental state, 1928-1937 / William C. Kirby -- Government and the emerging rubber industries in Indonesia and Malaya, 1900-1940 / Colin Barlow and John Drabble -- A note on the history of the textile industry in West Sumatra / Akira Oki -- Colonialism and development: Korea, Taiwan, and Kwantung / Samuel Pao-San Ho -- The industrial far west: region and nation in the late nineteenth century / David Igler -- Notes on the dawn of manufacturing in Chile / J. Fred Rippy and Jack Pfeiffer.