Linking destinies : : trade, towns and kin in Asian history / / edited by Peter Boomgaard, Dick Kooiman and Henk Schulte Nordholt.
Trade flows, cities and kinship relations can all be seen as elements of complex networks. In this collection of essays, all of which deal with Asia, we argue that there are good reasons to envisage them as various dimensions of the same networks. Nevertheless, it is fairly rare to find trade, citie...
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Peter Boomgaard , Dick Kooiman and Henk Schulte Nordholt
- Connecting people, places and commodities / Peter Boomgaard and Henk Schulte Nordholt
- Early globalization: Cowries as currency, 600 BCE-1900 / Peter Boomgaard
- The Asianization of indigo: Rapid change in a global trade around 1800 / Willem van Schendel
- Trading goods, prestige and power: A revisionist history of Lowlander-Highlander relations in Vietnam / Oscar Salemink
- Contextualizing trade in East Nusa Tenggara, 1600-1800 / I Gde Parimartha
- Maritime trade in small-town Java around 1775: The cases of Tegal and Pekalongan / Gerrit Knaap
- Struggling for justice: Chinese commerce and Dutch law in the Netherlands Indies, 1800-1942 / Alexander Claver
- Cities and the slave trade in early-modern Southeast Asia / Remco Raben
- Keroncong, concours and crooners: Home grown entertainment in early twentieth-century Batavia / Peter Keppy
- Kampong improvement in colonial Indonesia: A contest on paper and in the field / Freek Colombijn
- Family is where one starts from: Exploring family history in the historiography of colonial Indonesia / Elsbeth Locher-Scholten
- Cultural strategies, economic dominance: The lineage of Tan Bing in nineteenth-century Semarang, Java / Kwee Hui Kian
- Traditional lineages in transnational spaces / Song Ping
- Family divided, property disputed: The collapse of a wealthy Nanyang Chinese patriarch / Wu Xiao An
- About the authors / Peter Boomgaard , Dick Kooiman and Henk Schulte Nordholt
- Short biography of Heather Sutherland / Dick Kooiman
- Bibliography of Heather Sutherland / Inge Tromp.