In Asian waters : oceanic worlds from Yemen to Yokohama / Eric Tagliacozzo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tagliacozzo, Eric, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ocean and civilization.

Seas--Asia--History.

Seas.

Navigation--Asia--History.

Navigation.

Asia--Relations--Africa, East.

Asia.

Africa, East--Relations--Asia.

Africa, East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 489 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern world in the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes-an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan-exploded, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a massive circulation of people, commodities, religion, culture, technology, and ideas. In this book, Eric Tagliacozzo chronicles how the seas and oceans of Asia have shaped the history of the largest continent for the past half millennium, leaving an indelible mark on the modern world in the process.Paying special attention to migration, trade, the environment, and cities, In Asian Waters examines the long history of contact between China and East Africa; the spread of Hinduism and Buddhism across the Bay of Bengal; and the intertwined histories of Islam and Christianity in the Philippines. The book illustrates how India became central to the spice trade; how the Indian Ocean became a "British lake" between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries; and how lighthouses and sea mapping played important roles in imperialism. The volume ends by asking what may happen if China comes to rule the waves of Asia, as Britain once did. A novel account showing how Asian history can be seen as a whole when seen from the water, In Asian Waters presents a voyage into a past that is still alive in the present"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. South from Nagasaki, West from Hormuz

Part I. Maritime Connections

Preface: In Asian Waters

2. From China to Africa: Prolegomenon

3. Vietnam's Maritime Trade Orbit

Part II. Bodies of Water

Preface: The Imbricated Histories of Two Seas

4. Smuggling in the South China Sea: Illicit Histories

5. The Center and Its Margins: How the Indian Ocean Became "British

Part III. Religion on the Tides

Preface: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity in Asian Waters

6. Passage of Amulets: Hindu-Buddhist Transmissions in the Bay of Bengal

7. Zamboanga, Mindanao: Islam and Christianity at the End of the World

Part IV. Cities and the Sea

Preface: Urbanism Connects: The Life of Asian Cities

8. The Morphogenesis of Port Cities in "Greater Southeast Asia

9. From Aden to Bombay, from Singapore to Pusan: Colonial Circuits

Part V. The Bounty of the Oceans

Preface: The Environmental History of Asian Seas

10. Fins, Slugs, Pearls: Marine Products and Sino-Southeast Asia

11. On the Docks: How India's Southern Coasts Became "Spice Central

Part VI. Technologies of the Sea

Preface: The Technological Imperative in the Maritime History of Asia

12. Foucault's Other Panopticon, or Lighting Colonial Southeast Asia

13. Of Maps and Men: Hydrography and Empire

14. If China Rules the Waves

Appendix A: Base Chronologies for Asia's Seas

Appendix B: Written-Down Oral Histories of the Swahili Coasts

Appendix C: Fieldwork Excerpt from Sana'a: An Arab Herbalist

Appendix D: Indian Spice Traders in India and Malaysia

Appendix E: Dutch East Indies Regulations with Local Maritime States

Appendix F: Chinese Marine Goods Traders in East and Southeast Asia

Appendix G: Chinese Marine Products Newspaper Clipping, Taipei, Taiwan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691235646

0691235643

OCLC:

1311331240