Seaways and Gatekeepers : Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, C. 1600-C. 1906.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sutherland, Heather.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trade routes.

Commerce.

Boundaries.

Trade routes--Southeast Asia--History.

Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia--History.

Southeast Asia--Boundaries--History.

Southeast Asia--Commerce--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (554 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Seaways and Gatekeepers

Place of Publication:

Singapore : NUS Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The eastern archipelagos of Southeast Asia stretch from Mindanao and Sulu in the north to Bali in the southwest and New Guinea in the southeast. Many of their inhabitants are regarded as ""people without history"", while colonial borders cut across shared underlying patterns of relations. Yet many of these societies were linked to trans-oceanic trading systems for millennia. Indeed, some of the world's most prized commodities once came from territories which were either ""stateless"" or under the tenuous control of loosely structured polities in this region.Trade provides the integrating frame.

Contents:

ch. 1. Introduction

pt. 1. foundations. ch. 2. The Cradle of Geography ; ch. 3. Encounters ; ch. 4. Patchwork Polities

pt. 2. glimpsed histories. ch. 5. Commodity Wars before 1684 ; ch. 6. Ungovernable Tides, 1684-1784 ; ch. 7. Pivotal Decades, 1784-1819 ; ch. 8. Equivocal Policies, Converging Trade, 1819-47 ; ch. 9. Free Trade and Phantom Fleets, 1847-69 ; ch. 10. Steam and Capital, 1869-1906 ; ch. 11. In Restrospect.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789813251618

9813251611

OCLC:

1257244391