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- Title
"Very Dull & No Business Doing": A Reassessment of the American Sandalwood Trade between Hawaii and China, 1790-1832.
- Authors
OAKLEY, ERIC
- Abstract
This article is a critical reassessment of American trade in sandalwood between Hawaii and China from 1790-1832. It makes three contributions to the historiography of early commerce in the Pacific. First, it argues that American navigators did experiments with sandalwood throughout the 1790s. Second, it presents a price history that corroborates the influence of geopolitics upon the development of the sandalwood trade. Third, it demonstrates that a combination of deforestation, competition, and market saturation contributed to the decline of the trade in the 1820s.
- Subjects
HAWAII; CHINA; MARKET saturation; ECONOMIC development; DEFORESTATION
- Publication
Configurações, 2020, Issue 26, p63
- ISSN
1646-5075
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4000/configuracoes.10036