The essays selected for this volume show how the Pacific rapidly became part of an industrializing world. Its raw materials (notably rubber and copper) were critical, some of its handicraft industries were devastated by mechanized competition, others survived and adapted, contributing to distinctive patterns of industrialization that made Japan a new center of power, and also laid the groundwork for later growth in Taiwan, Korea, and coastal China. The Pacific coast of the Americas was also first drawn into an industrial world largely as an exporter of raw materials, but North and South diverged rapidly, portending futures even more different than those of Northeast and Southeast Asia. By the 1930s - when the uneven effects of industrialization would have much to do with plunging the Pacific into war - one can already glimpse in outline the structural bases for many of the region's contemporary characteristics. All this is set in context in the important introduction by Kenneth Pomeranz.
| ISBN: | 9780754658801 |
| Publication date: | 15th July 2009 |
| Author: | Kenneth Pomeranz |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 379 pages |
| Series: | The Pacific World : Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900 |
| Genres: |
General and world history Asian history Economic history History and Archaeology |
The essays selected for this volume show how the Pacific rapidly became part of an industrializing world. Its raw materials (notably rubber and copper) were critical, some of its handicraft industries were devastated by mechanized competition, others survived and adapted, contributing to distinctive patterns of industrialization that made Japan a new center of power, and also laid the groundwork for later growth in Taiwan, Korea, and coastal China. The Pacific coast of the Americas was also first drawn into an industrial world largely as an exporter of raw materials, but North and South diverged rapidly, portending futures even more different than those of Northeast and Southeast Asia. By the 1930s - when the uneven effects of industrialization would have much to do with plunging the Pacific into war - one can already glimpse in outline the structural bases for many of the region's contemporary characteristics. All this is set in context in the important introduction by Kenneth Pomeranz.
The Pacific in the Age of Early Industrialization features in the following genres: General and world history, Asian history, Economic history, History and Archaeology
The Pacific in the Age of Early Industrialization is available in Hardback
The Pacific in the Age of Early Industrialization was written by Kenneth Pomeranz and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
The Pacific in the Age of Early Industrialization has 379 pages
Yes it is part of The Pacific World : Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900 series
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