Maritime Ryukyu, 1050-1650 /

Why do Ryukyu's official histories locate the origins of its early dynastic founders in Iheya and Izena, small islands located northwest of Okinawa? Why did the Ming court extend favorable trade terms to Ryukyuan rulers? What was the nature of Okinawa's enigmatic principalities, Sannan, Ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smits, Gregory, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2019]
Subjects:
To 1879
Pirates > East Asia.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
Pirates
Politics and government
Ryukyu Islands > History > To 1879.
Ryukyu Islands > Politics and government.
Ryūkyū (Japon) > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1879.
East Asia
Japan > Ryukyu Islands
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ryukyu in the East China Sea network
  • Wakō and the Ryukyu Islands
  • A state for trade purposes
  • The enigma of the three principalities
  • Geographies of power
  • The first Shō Dynasty
  • Seizures, erasures, and resurgences
  • The second Shō Dynasty's challenges
  • Assembling a royal line
  • Centering Shuri and forging an empire
  • The Ryukyu Empire
  • Politics and religion
  • A changing world and the road to war
  • The war
  • Aftermath
  • Many Ryukyus.

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