A European role in intra-Asian commercial development: The Maclaine Watson network and the Java sugar trade c.1840–1942
研究荷兰东印度群岛的麦克莱恩·沃森商行如何从对欧贸易转向亚洲内部市场，揭示欧洲企业在亚洲区域经济发展中的作用。
This article concerns the Batavia (Jakarta)-based mercantile firm of Maclaine Watson (1827–1964) and its close commercial associates in the Netherlands Indies (modern-day Indonesia) and nearby Singapore. From its inception, the firm initially operated in the context of bilateral trade with Europe, in conjunction with its burgeoning role in the Netherlands Indies’ sugar export trade. By the century’s end, however, shifts in the direction of that trade meant that its prime commercial ventures were directed towards markets elsewhere in Asia. The significance of the firm’s involvement within intra-Asian trade and the region’s economic development forms the core of the article’s argument.