Maritime Asia

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K. A. Sprengard, Free Entrepreneurship, Rational Business Philosophy and Overseas Trade with Asia: Mercantilism, Physiocracy and Liberalism / R. Ptak, Notes on Chinese and Portuguese Entrepreneurship in Maritime Asia, c. 1350-1600 / Pin-Tsun Chang, Work Ethics without Capitalism: The Paradox of Chinese Merchant Behaviour, c. 1500-1800 / Ng Chinakeong, Chinese Maritime Merchants in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries / W. Demel, Trade Aspirations and China’s Policy of Isolation: European Views, mainly in the Eighteenth Century / J. de Deus Ramos, Thatta and Lhari Bandar: Portuguese Presence in two Commercial Entrepôts of Sind in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / J. M. Flores, Portuguese Entrepreneurs in the Sea of Ceylon (Mid-Sixteenth Century) / J. Villiers, Merchants, Missionaries and Monarchs in Sixteenth Century Southeast Asia, c.1400-1800 / P. Kirsch, VOC, - Trade without Ethics? / J. van Goor, Morals and Religion under the Dutch East India Company / K. Ono, Ethics and Entrepreneurship in Tokugawa Japan: Social Dimensions of the Maritime and the Domestic Merchant.