Pirates, Ports, and Coasts in Asia : : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives / / ed. by John Kleinen, Manon Osseweijer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Amirell, Stefan Eklöf,; Antony, Robert J.,; Calanca, Paola,; Kleinen, John,; Knaap, Gerrit,; Lapian, Adrian B.,; Liss, Carolin,; Osseweijer, Manon,; Pearson, Michael,; Tokoro, Ikuya,; Tuan, Hoang Anh,; Velthoen, Esther,; Warren, James,
• HerausgeberIn: Kleinen, John,; Osseweijer, Manon,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (311 p.)

Pirates, Ports and Coasts in Asia aims to fill in some of the historical gaps in the coverage of maritime piracy and armed robbery in Asia. The authors highlight a variety of activities ranging from raiding, destroying and pillaging coastal villages and capturing inhabitants to attacking and taking over vessels, robbing and then trading the cargo and its people. Generally speaking, what connects these activities is the fact that they are carried out at sea, often in the coastal inshore waters, by vessels attacking other vessels or raiding coastal settlements. Acts of maritime piracy cannot be regarded as being located outside the relevant framework of the coastal zone. Coastal zones have therefore become highly desirable places, a circumstance which has transformed them into places subject to great social and ecological pressures. Piracy being the most dramatic of marginal(ized) maritime livelihood, this book brings the relationship between pirates, ports, and coastal hinterlands into focus.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Contributors -- PART 1. Introduction -- 1. Pirates, Ports, and Coasts in Asia -- 2. Piracy in Asian Waters: Problems of Definition -- PART 2. East Asia -- 3. Giang Binh: Pirate Haven and Black Market on the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier, 1780–1802 -- 4. Tonkin Rear for China Front: The Dutch East India Company’s Strategy for the North-Eastern Vietnamese Ports in the 1660s Hoang Anh Tuan -- 5. South Fujian the Disputed Coast, Power and Counter-power -- 6. Maritime Piracy through a Barbarian Lens: Punishment and Representation (the S.S. Namoa Hijack Case, [1890–91]) -- PART 3. Southeast Asia -- 7. Violence and Armed Robbery in Indonesian Seas -- 8. Robbers and Traders: Papuan Piracy in the Seventeenth Century -- 9. The Port of Jolo: International Trade and Slave Raiding -- 10. Pirates in the Periphery: Eastern Sulawesi 1820–1905 -- 11. Suppressing Piracy in Asia: Decolonization and International Relations in a Maritime Border Region (the Sulu Sea), 1959–63 -- 12. Contemporary Maritime Piracy in the Waters off Semporna, Sabah -- 13. Piracy in Contemporary Sulu: An Ethnographical Case Study -- Index