In Asian Waters : : Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama /

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

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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...

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

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