Early Indonesian commerce [electronic resource] : a study of the origins of Śrīvijaya / O.W. Walters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolters, O. W.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trade routes.

Srivijaya (Kingdom)--Commerce--History.

Srivijaya (Kingdom).

Physical Description:

404 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Contained In:

ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1967.

Contents:

1. Some problems of Srivijayan history

2. Early Asian trade routes and South East Asia

3. A glimpse of western Indonesia in the third century A.D.

4. Early Indonesian trade with India

5. The development of Asian maritime trade from the fourth to the sixth century

6. The vintage texts

7. The pine resin of the southern ocean

8. The guggulu of the southern ocean

9. The 'Persian' trade

10. Shippers of the 'Persian' cargoes

11. Early 'tributary' kingdoms of western Indonesia

12. Isolated coasts in western Indonesia during the fifth and sixth centuries A.D.

13. The favoured coast of early Indonesian commerce

14. The heritage and prospects of Srivijaya

Appendices

A. The Lo yang chia lan chi as a source on Ko-ying

B. Yeh-t'iao and P'i-ch'ien

C. Chinese transcriptions of the names of the tributary kingdoms

Notes:

Includes bibliography (p. [367]-385) and index.