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Imagined geographies : the maritime silk roads in world history, 100-1800 /
'Imagined Geographies' is a pioneering work in the study of history and geography of the pre-1800 world. In this book, Gunn argues that different regions astride the maritime silk roads were not only interconnected but can also be construed as 'imagined geographies.' Taking a gra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press :
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Machine generated contents note: I.Moving beyond National History
- II.Imagined Geographies/Geographical Imaginaries
- III.Unpacking Area Studies and the Importance of Scale
- IV.Islamization
- V.Sinicization
- VI.Chapters
- pt. I Writings
- ch. 1 Writing a Decentered World Regional History
- I.Historiographical Trends in World Regional History Analysis
- II.Between China and India: An Essential Southeast Asia?
- III.European Exceptionalism?
- IV.East Asia Regionalism and the Framing of World Region
- V.European Imaginaries on an East-Southeast Asia Region
- Conclusion
- pt. II Imaginaries
- ch. 2 Indian Imaginary
- I.Indian Civilizational Influences in the India-China Interzone
- II.Deeper Patterns from Prehistory
- III.Indian Trade and Civilizational Transfer
- IV.Archaeological Record from the India-China Interzone
- Conclusion
- ch. 3 Arab Geographic Imaginaries
- I.Arab Trade and Islamic Conversion
- II.Arab/Muslim Geographies of Asia
- III.Arab Navigational Primacy
- IV.Ninth-Century Arab Merchant Accounts as Translated by Renaudot
- Conclusion
- ch. 4 Geographic Imaginaries from the Chinese Tradition
- I.China-Centered Tribute Trade System Explained
- II.Chinese Monks to India and the Making of an India Imaginary
- III.Song China Appraised
- IV.Song Dynasty World Imaginary
- V.Chinese South Seas Priority under the Mongol-Yuan Dynasty?
- VI.Early Ming-Era Voyages of the Muslim Admiral Zheng He
- VII.Chinese Maritime Prowess and Cartographic Empowerment
- Conclusion
- ch. 5 Japanese Geographic Imaginaries: The Tokugawa Invention of a Japan-Centered International Order
- I.Japan's Tribute Trade with China and the Korea Connection
- II.Accommodating the Nanbanjin
- III.Accommodating Other Asians
- IV.Japanese Geographic Imaginaries
- Conclusion
- ch. 6 Geographic Imaginaries of an Austral Land
- I.European Discovery Narratives
- II.Manuel Godinho de Eredia's Australia
- III.Portuguese-Dutch Navigations
- IV.Macassan Connection
- V.Chinese Imaginary of Australia
- Conclusion
- pt. III Evidence
- ch. 7 Connecting Up the Dots on Global Port Cities
- I.Port Cities of the Middle East-Indian Ocean Circuit: The Greco-Roman World of Seafaring
- II.Islamic World Ports
- III.Southeast Asian Circuits
- IV.South China and East China Sea Circuits
- Conclusion
- ch. 8 Evidence from Marine Archaeology
- I.Ceramic Trade as a Proxy for Early Trade Activity and the Rise and Fall of Port Cities
- II.Key Marine Archaeology Sites across the Indian Ocean
- III.Early Modern Trade Polities in East-Southeast Asia: The Evidence from European Shipwrecks
- Conclusion
- pt. IV Examples/Alternative Realms
- ch. 9 Ryukyu Trade Networks Revisited
- I.Precious Documents: The Rekidai Hoan
- II.Ming China and the Ryukyu Tribute Trade
- III.Ryukyu-Korea Trade
- IV.Ryukyu-Southeast Asian Trade
- V.Dual Subordination: Between the Qing and the Tokugawa Bakufu
- Conclusion
- ch. 10 Configuring Macau on the World Map
- I.Portuguese Macau Exceptionalism
- II.Early Jesuit Mapping of Ming China
- III.Jesuit Astronomical Project in Macau
- IV.Macau Mapped According to European Conventions/Macau and Pacific Ocean Exploration
- V.Macau in the Chinese Xylographic/Cartographic Tradition
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- I.Alternative Realms
- II.Rise and Fall of the Thirteenth-Century World System
- III.Autonomist or Borderless Histories?.