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Author Gunn, Geoffrey C., author

Title History without borders : the making of an Asian world region (1000-1800) / Geoffrey C. Gunn
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2011

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Description 1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Contents Machine generated contents note: East Asian Regionalism School -- "A Hundred Frontiers -- Hundred Horizons" -- Writing a Decentered World Regional History? -- Oriental Globalization Explained -- "Long Orient-first" Periodization (From Song to the Opium Wars) -- Southeast, East, or East-Southeast Asia? -- Framing of an East Asian History -- 1. Southeast Asia Between India and China -- Southeast Asian Environment -- From Hunter-Gatherers to Bronze and Iron Age Civilizations -- Austronesian Dispersion Theory -- Indian Trade and Civilizational Transfer -- Arab Trade and Islamic Conversion -- 2. Rise and Fall of the Southeast Asian "Charter" Kingdoms -- Srivijaya on Sumatra -- Java-centered Majapahit -- Cambodian Kingdom of Angkor -- Court of Phnom Penh -- Tai Pluralism (c. 1250-1440) -- Kingdom of Vientiane -- Tai Kingdom of Ayutthaya -- Burmese Kingdoms -- Trinh and Nguyen in Vietnam -- Hinduized Coastal States of Champa -- Court of Hue -- 3. Islamic Courts and Maritime Trading Ports -- Islamic Courts of Southeast Asia -- Sultanate of Aceh: Indian Ocean Gateway to Southeast Asia -- Melaka Sultanate -- Banten (1526-1813) -- Mataram: Muslim Court/Javanese Tradition -- Sultanate of Brunei: Across the China Seas -- Moro-land: The Sulu Sultanate at the Frontier -- Patani Sultanate: Facing Down Siam -- Makassar: Cosmopolitan Court on Sulawesi -- Johor: Sultanate with Strategic Alliances -- 4. Tribute Trade System and Chinese Diasporas -- China-centered Tribute Trade System -- Merchants, Smugglers and "Pirates" -- Historical Patterning -- Early 15th-Century Chinese Diaspora on Sumatra -- Rise of Chinese Totok Communities on Java -- Melaka Chinese: Rise of a Baba Community -- Chinese of Manila: Under the Spanish Gaze -- Teochiu Chinese of Bangkok: Royalists and Retainers -- "South of the Clouds": The Yunnan Frontier
Summary Astride the historical maritime silk routes linking India to China, as this book develops, East-Southeast Asia can also be viewed as a global region-in-the-making over a long-time. This book situates itself within a new genre of writing on zones between nations, especially prior to the emergence of the modern nation-state
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Commerce
Economic history
SUBJECT Southeast Asia -- Commerce -- History
Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions
Southeast Asia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008630
Subject Southeast Asia
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789882209213
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