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Elusive pirates, pervasive smugglers : violence and clandestine trade in the Greater China Seas / edited by Robert J. Antony.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Piracy--China Sea--History.
- Piracy.
- Smuggling--China Sea--History.
- Smuggling.
- Sea-power--China Sea Region--History.
- Sea-power.
- China Sea Region--History.
- China Sea Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume describes and critically analyzes piracy and smuggling in the Greater China Seas region from the 16th century to the present. It takes a radical departure from the standard terra-centred histories by placing the seas at the centre rather than at the margins of our inquiries.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contributors""; ""Illustrations""; ""1 - Introduction: The Shadowy World of the Greater China Seas""; ""2 - Violence at Sea: Unpacking “Piracy� in the Claims of States over Asian Seas""; ""3 - From Sea Bandits to Sea Lords: Nonstate Violence and Pirate Identities in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Japan ""; ""4 - Merchants, Smugglers, and Pirates: Multinational Clandestine Tradeon the South China Coast, 1520�50""; ""5 - Pirates, Gunpowder, and Christianity in Late Sixteenth-Century Japan""
- ""6 - At the Crossroads: Limahon and WakÅ? in Sixteenth-Century Philippines""""7 - Piracy and Coastal Security in Southeastern China, 1600â€?1780""; ""8 - Piracy and the Shadow Economy in the South China Sea, 1780â€?1810""; ""9 - Poor but Not Pirates: The Tsushima Domain and Foreign Relations in Early Modern Japan""; ""10 - The Business of Violence: Piracy around Riau, Lingga, and Singapore, 1820â€?40""; ""11 - Smuggling in the South China Sea: Alternate Histories of a Nonstate Space in the Late Nineteenth and Late Twentieth Centuries""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 988-220-691-3
- 1-283-01694-X
- 9786613016942
- 988-220-608-5
- OCLC:
- 709890936
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