Seaways and gatekeepers : trade and state in the eastern archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600-c.1906 /

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 r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sutherland, Heather (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : NUS Press, [2021]
Temas:
Trade routes > Southeast Asia > History.
Routes commerciales > Asie du Sud-Est > Histoire.
Boundaries
Commerce
Trade routes
Southeast Asia > Commerce > History.
Southeast Asia > Boundaries > History.
Southeast Asia > History.
Asie du Sud-Est > Commerce > Histoire.
Asie du Sud-Est > Histoire.
Southeast Asia
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 537 pages) : illustrations, maps
ISBN:9789813251618
9813251611

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