Breaking free? The evolution of intra-Asian trade at the dawn of globalization (1795–1839)

IF 1.4 1区 历史学 Q3 ECONOMICS
Alejandro Ayuso-Diaz
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This article contributes to the scholarly discourse on the repercussions of trade liberalization in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that contributed to early globalization, offering a perspective that extends beyond the traditional focus on Atlantic economies. Our study centres on East and Southeast Asia, pivotal in Pacific and Indian Ocean trade. We overcome data scarcity by presenting a new, partner-disaggregated imports dataset spanning 10 ports across the region from 1795 to 1839. Employing a gravity model and incorporating interactions, we assess the degree of intra-Asian trade and its evolution following key events that liberalized East and Southeast Asian commerce in a period when measurable global integration started to become apparent. Supporting new Asian scholarship, our results highlight the remarkable intra-Asian trade before the high colonial era. We also show that, in general, colonial trade policies fostering inter-continental trade disproportionately augmented colonial imports in East and Southeast Asia, eclipsing gains in intra-Asian or Pacific trade, especially before 1830. We explore the impact of the influx of British textiles in the region as a mechanism to explain these trends. Our study illuminates complex trade dynamics in East and Southeast Asia during a transformative period of measurable global integration.

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自由自在吗?全球化初期亚洲内部贸易的演变(1795-1839)
本文对18世纪末和19世纪初贸易自由化对早期全球化的影响的学术论述做出了贡献,提供了一个超越传统关注大西洋经济体的视角。我们的研究集中在东亚和东南亚,在太平洋和印度洋贸易的关键。我们提出了一个新的、按合作伙伴分类的进口数据集,涵盖了1795年至1839年该地区的10个港口,从而克服了数据匮乏的问题。采用重力模型并结合相互作用,我们评估了亚洲内部贸易的程度及其在东亚和东南亚贸易自由化的关键事件之后的演变,在此期间,可衡量的全球一体化开始变得明显。为了支持新的亚洲学术,我们的研究结果强调了在高殖民时代之前亚洲内部的显著贸易。我们还表明,总体而言,促进洲际贸易的殖民贸易政策不成比例地增加了殖民地在东亚和东南亚的进口,使亚洲内部或太平洋贸易的收益相形见绌,特别是在1830年之前。我们探讨了英国纺织品流入该地区的影响,作为解释这些趋势的机制。我们的研究揭示了东亚和东南亚在可衡量的全球一体化转型时期的复杂贸易动态。
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期刊介绍: The Economic History Review is published quarterly and each volume contains over 800 pages. It is an invaluable source of information and is available free to members of the Economic History Society. Publishing reviews of books, periodicals and information technology, The Review will keep anyone interested in economic and social history abreast of current developments in the subject. It aims at broad coverage of themes of economic and social change, including the intellectual, political and cultural implications of these changes.
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