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In
Hinterlands and Commodities, well-known historians and an economist examine perennially important questions concerning temporal and spatial relationships among central places, hinterlands, commodities, and political economic developments in Asia and the Global economy over the long eighteenth century.
About the author
Tsukasa Mizushima is a Professor in the Department of Oriental History at the University of Tokyo. His interests include Indian rural development, Pan-Asian GIS-based historical studies, and global history from an Asian perspective. He is the author of
Nattar and the Socio-Economic Change in South India in the 18th-19th Centuries (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1986) and others.
George Bryan Souza is affiliated with the University of Texas, San Antonio and, recently, a Mercator Guest Professor at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He is the author of
The Survival of Empire: Portuguese Trade and Society in China and the South China Sea, 1630-1754 (Cambridge University Press, 1986 and 2004) and
Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c. 1585-1800: Merchants, Commodities and Commerce (Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 2014).
Dennis O. Flynn has been Alexander R. Heron Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of the Pacific, since 1998, and Director, Pacific World History Institute, since 2000. He is author/editor of eleven previous volumes, and co-General Editor (with Arturo Giráldez) of the seventeen-volume series
The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples, and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900 (Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 2001-2014).
