Tag Archives: trade
Globalisation, Inequality and Institutions in Colonial Indonesia
“Globalisation, Inequality and Institutions in West Sumatra and West Java, 1800–1940” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2020.1765189) is a new, open access article by Pim de Zwart of the Rural and Environmental History Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands. The abstract for the article is: How … Continue reading
World Trade Systems, Nagasaki and Bullion
Arturo Giráldez of the School of International Studies at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, USA reviews a new book by JCA co-editor Geoffrey C. Gunn. World Trade Systems of the East and West. Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion … Continue reading
Trading across the Thai-Lao Border
“Navigating Small-Scale Trade Across Thai-Lao Border Checkpoints: Legitimacy, Social Relations and Money” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1551559) is by Sarah Elsing, an independent researcher from Berlin. This is the sixth article for a forthcoming special issue on Checkpoint Politics in Cross-border Exchanges. The … Continue reading
ASEAN and ICT Trade with China
Siew Yean Tham of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore and Andrew Jia Yi Kam and Nor Izzatina Abdul Aziz both of the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS),Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia have co-authored a new paper for JCA. Their article, … Continue reading
Plants and empire
Zaheer Baber of the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto has a new paper available online at the JCA publisher’s website. “The Plants of Empire: Botanic Gardens, Colonial Power and Botanical Knowledge” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1185796) is a paper that … Continue reading
Trade deals
Articles on trade negotiations are the usual fare of JCA as we have tended to avoid the alphabet soup articles that discuss these trade deals. However, because of the potential significance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership being enthusiastically promoted by the … Continue reading
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