| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 290 pages) : illustrations (colour) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: I.Moving beyond National History -- II.Imagined Geographies/Geographical Imaginaries -- III.Unpacking Area Studies and the Importance of Scale -- IV.Islamization -- V.Sinicization -- VI.Chapters -- pt. I Writings -- ch. 1 Writing a Decentered World Regional History -- I.Historiographical Trends in World Regional History Analysis -- II.Between China and India: An Essential Southeast Asia? -- III.European Exceptionalism? -- IV.East Asia Regionalism and the Framing of World Region -- V.European Imaginaries on an East-Southeast Asia Region -- Conclusion -- pt. II Imaginaries -- ch. 2 Indian Imaginary -- I.Indian Civilizational Influences in the India-China Interzone -- II.Deeper Patterns from Prehistory -- III.Indian Trade and Civilizational Transfer -- IV.Archaeological Record from the India-China Interzone -- Conclusion -- ch. 3 Arab Geographic Imaginaries -- I.Arab Trade and Islamic Conversion -- II.Arab/Muslim Geographies of Asia -- III.Arab Navigational Primacy -- IV.Ninth-Century Arab Merchant Accounts as Translated by Renaudot -- Conclusion -- ch. 4 Geographic Imaginaries from the Chinese Tradition -- I.China-Centered Tribute Trade System Explained -- II.Chinese Monks to India and the Making of an India Imaginary -- III.Song China Appraised -- IV.Song Dynasty World Imaginary -- V.Chinese South Seas Priority under the Mongol-Yuan Dynasty? -- VI.Early Ming-Era Voyages of the Muslim Admiral Zheng He -- VII.Chinese Maritime Prowess and Cartographic Empowerment -- Conclusion -- ch. 5 Japanese Geographic Imaginaries: The Tokugawa Invention of a Japan-Centered International Order -- I.Japan's Tribute Trade with China and the Korea Connection -- II.Accommodating the Nanbanjin -- III.Accommodating Other Asians -- IV.Japanese Geographic Imaginaries -- Conclusion -- ch. 6 Geographic Imaginaries of an Austral Land -- I.European Discovery Narratives -- II.Manuel Godinho de Eredia's Australia -- III.Portuguese-Dutch Navigations -- IV.Macassan Connection -- V.Chinese Imaginary of Australia -- Conclusion -- pt. III Evidence -- ch. 7 Connecting Up the Dots on Global Port Cities -- I.Port Cities of the Middle East-Indian Ocean Circuit: The Greco-Roman World of Seafaring -- II.Islamic World Ports -- III.Southeast Asian Circuits -- IV.South China and East China Sea Circuits -- Conclusion -- ch. 8 Evidence from Marine Archaeology -- I.Ceramic Trade as a Proxy for Early Trade Activity and the Rise and Fall of Port Cities -- II.Key Marine Archaeology Sites across the Indian Ocean -- III.Early Modern Trade Polities in East-Southeast Asia: The Evidence from European Shipwrecks -- Conclusion -- pt. IV Examples/Alternative Realms -- ch. 9 Ryukyu Trade Networks Revisited -- I.Precious Documents: The Rekidai Hoan -- II.Ming China and the Ryukyu Tribute Trade -- III.Ryukyu-Korea Trade -- IV.Ryukyu-Southeast Asian Trade -- V.Dual Subordination: Between the Qing and the Tokugawa Bakufu -- Conclusion -- ch. 10 Configuring Macau on the World Map -- I.Portuguese Macau Exceptionalism -- II.Early Jesuit Mapping of Ming China -- III.Jesuit Astronomical Project in Macau -- IV.Macau Mapped According to European Conventions/Macau and Pacific Ocean Exploration -- V.Macau in the Chinese Xylographic/Cartographic Tradition -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- I.Alternative Realms -- II.Rise and Fall of the Thirteenth-Century World System -- III.Autonomist or Borderless Histories? |
| Summary |
'Imagined Geographies' is a pioneering work in the study of history and geography of the pre-1800 world. In this book, Gunn argues that different regions astride the maritime silk roads were not only interconnected but can also be construed as 'imagined geographies.' Taking a grand civilizational perspective, five such geographic imaginaries are examined across respective chapters, namely Indian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and European including an imagined Great South Land. Drawing upon an array of marine and other archaeological examples, the author offers compelling evidence of the intertwining of political, cultural, and economic regions across the sea silk roads from ancient times until the seventeenth century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 20, 2022) |
| Subject |
Trade routes -- History
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International relations -- History.
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Geography.
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Trade routes
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International relations
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Geography
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9888528769 |
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9789888528776 |
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9888528777 |
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9789888528769 |
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