In Asian Waters (eBook)

Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama

Eric Tagliacozzo (Autor)

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2022
512 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23564-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 worldIn 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-grew dramatically, 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 "e;British lake"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 53 b/w illus. 6 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1976 Tripoli Agreement • Abalone • Aceh • Africa • Aircraft Carrier (Medium) • Albertus Magnus • Alison Bashford • aphid • archaeology • Area Studies • aristocracy • Armenians • Art History • Ashoka • Astronomical Object • Atlantic History • Banda Aceh • Bangladesh • bark beetle • Batina • Bearing (navigation) • Body of water • Borneo • Brunei • Buddhism • Buoy • bureaucrat • Cambridge University Press • Carrefour • Case study • China • Chinese Tea • Christianity and Islam • Circular Orbit • circumference • Civilisation (TV series) • coconut water • Collecting • Colonialism • Colonization • Combatant • Commodity • Connections (TV series) • corporation • Cultural History • Datu • David Armitage (historian) • death squad • Dejima • Demography • Dhow • Dictatorship • distrust • Djibouti • Drainage basin • Dvaravati • Dwelling • early modern period • East Africa • Eastern Arabia • ecosystem • Empire • empress dowager • Environmental history • Eric Hobsbawm • Eric Wolf • Eurasian steppe • Everyday life • Exchequer • Expense • Far North (South Australia) • Fennel • Fernand Braudel • forced conversion • Frankfurt School • Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft • Geography of Asia • Government of the Philippines • Governor • Great Power • Guangdong • Gulf of Thailand • Gupta • Hanoi • Headhunting • hegemony • Hinduism • Home economics • Honolulu • Indian Ocean • Indian Subcontinent • Indigenous peoples of the Americas • Indonesia • Insurgency • Janet Abu-Lughod • Jerry H. Bentley • Jiuquan • Karakorum • Kenneth Pomeranz • Kuril Islands • Laos • Lighting • Macau • Maghreb • Ma Huan • Malacca • Malaysia • Maritime History • Market Price • Mediterranean basin • mercantilism • Middle latitudes • Mindanao • Mozambique • Muslim world • Nagasaki • Nation-Building • Naval architecture • Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin • Opium • Orbital speed • Oxford University Press • peasant • Philippines • Piracy • Plantations in the American South • Playwright • Political Science • Port • Quantity • Religious Conversion • reorient • Ryukyu Kingdom • salary • Sanjay Subrahmanyam • Scale insect • school of thought • Sea lane • Secession • Shahbandar • Shandong • Slipway • Social Structure • soliloquy • South Asia • South Bridge Road • South China Sea • South China Sea Islands • Southeast Asia • South India • sphere of influence • spice trade • Steppe • Sternorrhyncha • stevedore • Stone Town • Subcontractor • Sujit Sivasundaram • Sulawesi • Sulu Sea • Sumatra • Sunda Kelapa • Supply Chain • Supply (economics) • Surveillance • Tambralinga • Tamil One • Tang Dynasty • Tathagata • Teak • Technology • Thailand • The Indians • The Setting Sun • Tierra del Fuego • Trade Route • Treaty • Triangular Trade • Tsushima Strait • United States Congress • University of Pisa • Urban morphology • Victor Lieberman • Wang Gungwu • War of attrition • Western Market • whaling • World History • Wu Xing • Yokohama • Yoneo Ishii • Zheng He
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23564-3 / 0691235643
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23564-6 / 9780691235646