In Asian Waters : : Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama / / Eric Tagliacozzo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Tagliacozzo, Eric,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.) :; 53 b/w illus. 6 tables.

A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes—an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan—grew dramatically, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a massive circulation of people, commodities, religion, culture, technology, and ideas. In this book, Eric Tagliacozzo chronicles how the seas and oceans of Asia have shaped the history of the largest continent for the past half millennium, leaving an indelible mark on the modern world in the process.Paying special attention to migration, trade, the environment, and cities, In Asian Waters examines the long history of contact between China and East Africa; the spread of Hinduism and Buddhism across the Bay of Bengal; and the intertwined histories of Islam and Christianity in the Philippines. The book illustrates how India became central to the spice trade; how the Indian Ocean became a “British lake” between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries; and how lighthouses and sea mapping played important roles in imperialism. The volume ends by asking what may happen if China comes to rule the waves of Asia, as Britain once did.A novel account showing how Asian history can be seen as a whole when seen from the water, In Asian Waters presents a voyage into a past that is still alive in the present.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Languages -- 1 South from Nagasaki, West from Hormuz -- Part I. Maritime Connections -- Preface: In Asian Waters -- 2 From China to Africa -- 3 Vietnam’s Maritime Trade Orbit -- Part II. Bodies of Water -- Preface: The Imbricated Histories of Two Seas -- 4 Smuggling in the South China Sea -- 5 The Center and Its Margins -- Part III. Religion on the Tides -- Preface: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity in Asian Waters -- 6 Passage of Amulets -- 7 Zamboanga, Mindanao -- Part IV. Cities and the Sea -- Preface: Urbanism Connects: The Life of Asian Cities -- 8 The Morphogenesis of Port Cities in “Greater Southeast Asia” -- 9 From Aden to Bombay, from Singapore to Pusan -- Part V. The Bounty of the Oceans -- Preface: The Environmental History of Asian Seas -- 10 Fins, Slugs, Pearls -- 11 On the Docks -- Part VI. Technologies of the Sea -- Preface: The Technological Imperative in the Maritime History of Asia -- 12 Foucault’s Other Panopticon, or Lighting Colonial Southeast Asia -- 13 Of Maps and Men -- 14 If China Rules the Waves -- List of Appendix Documents -- Appendix A: Base Chronologies for Asia’s Seas -- Appendix B: Written-Down Oral Histories of the Swahili Coasts -- Appendix C: Fieldwork Excerpt from Sana’a -- Appendix D: Indian Spice Traders in India and Malaysia -- Appendix E: Dutch East Indies Regulations with Local Maritime States -- Appendix F: Chinese Marine Goods Traders in East and Southeast Asia -- Appendix G: Chinese Marine Products Newspaper Clipping, Taipei, Taiwan -- Bibliography -- Index