This landmark study of Canton and Macao merchants advances our understanding of the rise and development of international commercial networks. The eighteenth century was a transitional period in world
Almost 2,000 British Prisoners of War were aboard the Japanese freighter Lisbon Maru when an American submarine torpedoed and sank her in October 1942. This book tells the story of those men, from the
The fifteenth century is an enigma in Southeast Asian history — too late for classical inscriptions, and generally too early for indigenous texts or European observations. The arrival of European ship
