Imagined geographies : the maritime silk roads in world history, 100-1800 / Geoffrey C. Gunn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunn, Geoffrey C., author.

Series:

Hong Kong scholarship online.

Hong Kong scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trade routes--Asia--History.

Trade routes.

Asia--Commerce--History.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2021]

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Plates

Introduction

Part I: Writings

1. Writing a Decentered World Regional History

Part II: Imaginaries

2. An Indian Imaginary

3. Arab Geographic Imaginaries

4. Geographic Imaginaries from the Chinese Tradition

5. Japanese Geographic Imaginaries: The Tokugawa Invention of a Japan-Centered International Order

6. Geographic Imaginaries of an Austral Land

Part III: Evidence

7. Connecting Up the Dots on Global Port Cities

8. The Evidence from Marine Archaeology

Part IV: Examples/Alternative Realms

9. The Ryukyu Trade Networks Revisited

10. Configuring Macau on the World Map

Afterword

References

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 13, 2022).

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Other Format:

Print version: Gunn, Geoffrey C. Imagined Geographies

ISBN:

9789888528769

9888528769

9789888528776

9888528777

OCLC:

1291309778