Freeman, Donald B. <br/><br/>
The Straits of Malacca  gateway or gauntlet? /  [electronic resource] : 
Donald B. Freeman. 
 - Montreal :  McGill-Queen's University Press,  c2003. 
 - xxiv, 249 p. :  ill., maps. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-244) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Coastwise shipping--History.--Malacca, Strait of<br/>Trade routes--Malacca, Strait of.<br/>Transports maritimes cotiers--Histoire.--Malacca, Detroit de<br/>Routes commerciales--Malacca, Detroit de.<br/>Malacca, Detroit de--Commerce--Histoire.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Malacca, Strait of--Commerce--History.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HE884.6  / .F74 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>387.5/24/0916565