term
Caloric-Ballistic Loop
Also known as: Arms Loop, Trepang-Firearm Exchange
A causal economic cycle where marine proteins (trepang) and rice are exchanged for European/American firearms.
Claims (1)
The exchange of trepang and rice for firearms functioned as the primary economic engine of the 19th-century Sulu maritime system.
1 cycle
3 sources
Sources
Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson (eds.). The Philippine Islands, 1493–1803 (Volume 06) (1903)
primary · textual-colonial · Project Gutenberg
Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson (eds.). The Philippine Islands, 1493–1803 (Volume 27) (1903)
primary · textual-colonial · Project Gutenberg
Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson (eds.). The Philippine Islands, 1493–1803 (Volume 16) (1903)
primary · textual-colonial · Project Gutenberg