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Maps, illustrations, xvi + 255pp, index. 25 x 19.5cm. Top edge trifle foxed, a very good copy in dustjacket. Chapter titles are: Studying the Asian Port City; The Organisation of Production in the Pre-Colonial Southeast Asian Port City; European Port-Settlements in the Coromandel Commercial System 1650-1740; Eastern Emporium and Company Town: Trade and Society in Eighteenth Century Makassar; The Transformation of a Semi-Colonial Port City: Shanghai, 1843-1941; Colombo: Gateway and Oceanic Hub of Shipping; The Two Faces of the Port City: Colombo in Modern Times; Maritime Perspectives on Ports and Port Systems: The Case of East Africa; Port Cities in a National System of Ports and Cities: A Geographical Analysis of India in the Twentieth Century; On the Evolution of the Port City.