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A Maritime Vietnam : From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century / Tana Li.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Tana, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeology--Vietnam.
- Archaeology.
- Merchant marine--Vietnam--History.
- Merchant marine.
- Vietnam--History.
- Vietnam.
- Vietnam--Commerce--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 341 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Li Tana presents a powerful new reading of Vietnamese history: that key political changes resulted from the impact, economic and otherwise, of the sea. This finely layered account covering the two millennia before colonisation radically restructures how we understand the shaping of the country we now know as Vietnam"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- 1. Maritime Formations
- 2. Aromatics, Buddhism, and the Making of a South Seas Emporium
- 3. 'THE Harbour and THE Path of All Countries': Linyi, 200-700 CE
- 4. Maritime Resurgence and the Rise of Dai Viet
- 5. Winds of Trade from the Middle East: Champa in the Eighth to Twelfth Centuries
- 6. Muslim Trade and the Conquest of the Coast: The Mystery of the Topkapi Vase
- 7. Silks and Society: Tongking in the Age of Commerce
- 8. Seventeenth-Century Dang Trong: A Maritime Entity
- 9. The Rise and Fall of the Eighteenth-Century Water Frontier
- 10. Ships and the Problem of Political Integration: Transporting Rice in the New Empire
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jan 2024).
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781009237659
- 1009237659
- 9781009237666
- 1009237667
- 9781009237628
- 1009237624
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