Urbanization and the Pacific World, 1500–1900

Lionel Frost is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics and Business at Monash University, Australia.

• Contents: Introduction; Traditionalism and colonialism: changing urban roles in Asia, Rhoads Murphey; Macao as a religious and commercial entrepôt in the 16th and 17th centuries, C.R. Boxer; Batavia, 1619-1740: the rise and fall of a Chinese colonial town, Leonard Blussé; The development of Pacific coast ports during the Spanish colonial period in Mexico, Donald D. Brand; The development of Philippine cities before 1900, Daniel F. Doeppers; Some reflections on urbanization and the historical development of market towns in the lower Yangtse region, ca. 1500-1900, Shih-chi Liu; Urban sanitation in preindustrial Japan, Susan B. Hanley; Coping in their own way: Asian cities and the problem of fires, Lionel Frost; A historical review of housing conditions in Hong Kong, E.G. Pryor; Public health care in Valparaíso, Chile, Ronn Pineo; Honolulu in the 19th century: notes on the emergence of urban society in Hawaii, Gavan Daws; Australian capital cities in the 19th century, J.W. McCarty; The making of urban New Zealand, David Hamer; Seattle, Vancouver, and the Klondike, Norbert MacDonald; City commercial, city beautiful, city practical: the San Francisco visions of William C. Ralston, James D. Phelan and Michael M. O'Shaughnessy, Robert W. Cherny; Index.