Asian Entrepreneurial Minorities: Conjoint Communities in the Making of the World-economy 1570-1940Advances the theoretical understanding of the behaviour of entrepreneurial minorities and draws a vivid picture of how various imperial powers came to rely on local entreprenuerial minorities to establish their hegemony in Asia. |
Contents
South China and the Philippines c 1850 210 | 20 |
Manila and the Creation of a New Chinese Identity 15701830 | 21 |
Central Luzon c 1850 | 26 |
Batavia and the Peranakan Chinese 16191870 | 47 |
352 | 54 |
38 | 60 |
Chinese Business in a New | 69 |
Java c 1900 46 | 74 |
the Ismaili Partnership in East | 109 |
East Africa c 1914 | 116 |
the Nattukottai Chettiars | 131 |
Madras Presidency Districts c 1900 | 133 |
Lower Burma Divisions c 1930 | 141 |
Changing Chinese Enterprise in the Philippines and Java | 156 |
Creativity and Identity | 197 |
Glossary | 214 |
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