Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia - 9781783270699

Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast AsiaGillian Maclaine and his Business Network\nAuthor(s): G Roger Knight\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783270699, 978-1783270699\nSynopsis\nDiscusses the complexities of a trading network in this period, outling commodity chains, links between colonies and colonial centres, and tensions between local polities and competing empires.\n\nThis book explores European mercantile activity in Southeast Asia at a time when trade in this part of the world was being transformed and extended much more widely. Based on extensive original research including in newly discovered archives, the book reveals, through the study of one particular merchant and his extensive network, how trade in the region worked. It outlines the activities of Gillian Maclaine, a young Scottish \""adventurer\"" (his word) who came to the region in about 1816 and established an enduring bu.