Kenneth R Hall

Biographic Data

ID468612
NAMEKenneth R Hall
GIVEN NAMESKenneth R
FAMILY NAMEHall
SIGNATUREHALL K R
AFFILIATIONSBall State University
ORCID0000-0003-2862-5646
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS87
AUTHOR COUNT47
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX5

  • Introduction: Asian Maritime Networking Centered in Fifteenth Century Melaka

    Kenneth R HallARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…2022References: 18

    This introductory chapter and those that follow in this issue of JESHO celebrate the 500th anniversary of the c .1400–1511 strategic Melaka port-of-trade based Sultanate that controlled the Straits of Melaka maritime passageway connecting the Western and Eastern Indian Oceans to the China and Java Seas and beyond in eastern Asia until the Portuguese seizure of Melaka in 1511. As such, these studies update prior JESHO publications that have addres…

  • Fifteenth-Century Melaka’s Networked Ports-of-Trade and Maritime Diasporas in the Bay of Bengal and Western Indian Ocean

    Kenneth R HallARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…2022References: 13

    Internationally Western scholars have emphasized the importance of pre-fifteenth-century Western and Eastern Indian Ocean, South Asian, Bay of Bengal, South China; regional Java and wider Southeast Asia commercial, landed, maritime, and societal networking; and Islamic, Hindu, Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism. Notably where there were upstream agrarian hinterlands of early historical Southeast Asia polities, royal courts, temples, cultural centers…

  • Maritime Trade and Societal Transitions in the Extended Eastern Indian Ocean c. 900–1500

    Kenneth R HallCHAPTERTwenty Years of BIMSTEC2019

    This chapter validates regional documentation that includes newly available shipwreck and archaeological recoveries. Indian Ocean maritime trade substantially increased during the tenth through the fifteenth centuries as the mainstream Middle East to India to China routes diffused and greater numbers and different types of traders pursued a variety of regional products into the wider eastern Indian Ocean region. Middle East-based maritime trade c…

  • Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia

    Kenneth R HallBOOKMaritime Trade and State…2019

    This book brings something new in both dimension and detail to our understanding of Southeast Asia from the first to the fourteenth centuries. It puts Southeast Asia in the context of the international trade that stretched from Rome to China and draws upon a wide range of recent scholarship in history and the social sciences to redefine the role that this trade played in the evolution of the classical states of Southeast Asia. By examining the so…

  • M ichael A. A ung -T hwin . Myanmar in the Fifteenth Century: A Tale of Two Kingdoms

    Open AccessKenneth R HallARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    With Myanmar in the Fifteenth Century: A Tale of Two Kingdoms, Michael Aung-Thwin culminates his corrective series of books and journal articles that challenge nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and Burmese prejudicial histories that reconstructed the chronology of Myanmar (Burma) to validate British colonial rule and British legacy partnerships with favored Burma ethnicities. In postindependence Burma after 1948, Burmese political authori…

  • The Coming of the West: European Cambodian Marketplace Connectivity, 1500–1800

    Open AccessKenneth R HallCHAPTERCambodia and the West, 1500-20002018

    The Cambodia kingdom experienced the intertwined forces of political, social, and religious elites transforming the very nature of its longstanding rural economy from the fifteenth into the sixteenth century. In doing so, they took advantage of new commercial opportunities for raw materials and finished goods. Multiple international commercial and maritime diasporic communities were initially drawn from China and subsequently attracted interest f…

  • Historical Study of Societal Transformations in the Extended Indian Ocean Realm

    Kenneth R HallARTICLEThe Asian review of World Histories2018

    Western historiography placed the indigenous Asia beyond the court political centers and the most commercially prominent ports-of-trade in the background of an exogenous (colonial) foreground. Western historical research from the sixteenth century onward privileged selected aspects and voices of the exogenous, focusing on the Arabic and Persian Middle East, India, China, and the West, represented from the nineteenth century onward by the terms Is…

  • Maritime Trade and Societal Transitions in the Western Indonesian Archipelago: Samudra-Pasai at the Dawn of the European Age (c. 1200-1500)

    Kenneth R HallARTICLEThe Asian review of World Histories2017Cited by: 5

    This study is the substantial update to a journal article published in 1981, focal on the first northeast Sumatra fourteenth- and fifteenthcentury Islamic Sultanate Samudra-Pasai port-of-trade. In doing so the study represents the significant transitions in Indian Ocean history that were substantially influenced by Michael Pearson’s scholarship. Samudra-Pasai was a notable eastern Indian Ocean fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Straits of Melaka i…

  • Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis

    James J T Connolly, Robert T Hall et al.BOOKPrint Culture Histories Beyond…2016

    Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis focuses attention to how the residents of smaller cities, provincial districts, rural settings, and colonial outposts have produced, disseminated, and read print materials.

  • Commodity Flows, Diaspora Networking, and Contested Agency in the Eastern Indian Ocean c. 1000–1500

    Open AccessKenneth R HallARTICLETRaNS Trans -Regional and…2016Cited by: 5References: 22

    Recent revisionist approaches to early pre-1500 eastern Indian Ocean history draw from and cross-reference epigraphic, archaeological, art historical, literary, cultural, textual, shipwreck, and a variety of other primary and secondary sources as these document the evolution of Southeast Asia from roughly 300 to 1500, before significant European regional presence became a factor. This study's focus is the transitional importance of c. 1000–1500 I…

  • European Southeast Asia Encounters with Islamic Expansionism, circa 1500–1700: Comparative Case Studies of Banten, Ayutthaya, and Banjarmasin in the Wider Indian Ocean Context

    Kenneth R HallARTICLEJournal of world history2014Cited by: 3References: 6

    This paper addresses the importance of commercial expansionism and cultural exchange in maritime Southeast Asia as both were foundational to Portuguese, Dutch, French, and British encounters with Islamic traders and regional ports of trade circa 1500–1700. Portuguese conquest of the Islamic sultanate of Melaka in 1511 and their subsequent imposition of restrictions on Straits of Melaka transit set in motion the relocations of numbers of multiethn…

  • Philippe Beaujard. Les mondes de l'océan Indien. Tome 2: L'océan Indien, au coeur des globalisations de l'Ancien Monde (7 e –15 e siècle). 799 pages, 105 colour and b&w illustrations. 2012. Paris: Arm…

    Open AccessKenneth R HallARTICLEAntiquity2013

    Philippe Beaujard. Les mondes de l'océan Indien. Tome 2: l'océan Indien, au coeur des globalisations de l'Ancien Monde (7e–15e siècle). 799 pages, 105 colour and b&w illustrations. 2012. Paris: Armand Colin; 978-2-200-27709-3 hardback € 65. - Volume 87 Issue 337

  • History of Early Southeast Asia: Maritime Trade and Societal Development, 100–1500

    Kenneth R HallBOOKHistory of Early Southeast Asia2011

    This comprehensive history provides a fresh interpretation of Southeast Asia from 100 to 1500, when major social and economic developments foundational to modern societies took place on the mainland (Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) and the island world (Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines). Kenneth R. Hall explores this dynamic era in detail, which was notable for growing external contacts, internal adaptations of nearby cultures, an…

  • Borderless’ Southeast Asia historiography: New scholarship on the interactions and exchanges between Southeast Asia and its South Asian and Chinese neighbours in the pre-1500 era

    Open AccessKenneth R HallARTICLEBijdragen tot de taal- land- en…2011References: 1

    Review of: Nola Cooke, Li Tana and James A. Anderson (eds), The Tongking Gulf through history. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, x + 223 pp. [Encounters with Asia Series.] ISBN 9780812243369. Price: USD 59.95 (hardback). Derek Heng, Sino-Malay trade and diplomacy from the tenth through the fourteenth century. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009, xiii + 286 pp. [Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series 121.] ISB…

  • A History of Early Southeast Asia: Maritime Trade and Societal Development, 100–1500

    Kenneth R HallBOOKA history of early Southeast Asia2010

    Chapter 1: Trade and Statecraft in Early Southeast Asia Chapter 2: Early International Maritime Trade and Cultural Networking in the Southeast Asia Region, ca. 100-500 Chapter 3: Competition on the East Coast of the Mainland: Early Champa and Vietnam Political Economies Chapter 4: The Foundations of Indonesian Polity: Srivijaya and Java to the Early Tenth Century Chapter 5: Structural Change in the Javanese Community, ca. 900-1300 Chapter 6: The …

  • Ports-of-Trade, Maritime Diasporas, and Networks of Trade and Cultural Integration in the Bay of Bengal Region of the Indian Ocean: C. 1300-1500

    Kenneth R HallARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…2009Cited by: 7

    This exploratory study addresses the trading networks in the Bay of Bengal region of the Indian Ocean during the 1300-1500 era. In this case it is less about the exchange of products than the membership of trading communities, the relationships among the regionally networked ports-of-trade and their merchant communities, and the regional cultural and economic consequences. The focal issue here is the transitional nature of maritime trade and cult…

  • Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830

    Kenneth R Hall, Kenneth HallREVIEWJournal of the Economic and…2008

  • Multi-Dimensional Networking: Fifteenth-Century Indian Ocean Maritime Diaspora in Southeast Asian Perspective

    Kenneth R Hall, Kenneth HallARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…2006Cited by: 3

    This study addresses the different types of diasporic spread in the island world on the eve of European contact, in a shifting optic that raises issues of ethnicity and urbanism, and how the two are linked. By examining the wider patterns of sojourners moving through the Southeast Asia region this study emphasizes that developing urbanisms were predicated and dependent on shifting population flows, and not on the agglomeration of people in one pl…

  • An atypical Ancient Egyptian pillow from Sedment el-Gebel: Evidence for migrant worker trading and technology

    Open AccessJonathan Seath, A P Giz̈e et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2005

  • Traditions of Knowledge in Old Javanese Literature, c . 1000–1500

    Open AccessKenneth R HallARTICLEJournal of Southeast Asian Studies2005Cited by: 1

    This article explores how Old Javanese texts, ‘literary temples’, can be used to help reconstruct the ‘textual community’ (rather than a hegemonic polity) that existed prior to Java's sixteenth-century Islamic conversions. Instead of the physical and economic might of an emerging elite, it focuses on a society's empowering acceptance and understanding of a common culture that is centered in a ritualized court. This ritualized court culture is not…

  • Local and International Trade and Traders in The Straits of Melaka Region: 600-1500

    Kenneth R Hall, Kenneth HallARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…2004Cited by: 6

    This article notes that the recent mainstream scholarship on the pre-1500 Indian Ocean trade by non-Southeast Asia specialists has limited itself to Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Chinese evidence—and that these scholars' exclusion of Southeast Asian documentation has led to erroneous statements and conclusions. Based on selected examples of the omitted Southeast Asia evidence, this study highlights the changes taking place in the maritime trad…

  • The Roots of Asean: Regional Identities in the Strait of Melaka Region Circa 1500 C.E

    Kenneth R HallARTICLEAsian journal of social science2001References: 3

  • Upstream and Downstream Unification in Southeast Asia's First Islamic Polity: The Changing Sense of Community in the Fifteenth Century Hikayat Raja-Raja Pasai Court Chronicle

    Kenneth R Hall, Kenneth HallARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…2001Cited by: 2

    This study on the thirteenth and fourteenth century emergence of Southeast Asia's earliest Islamic state examines how the fifteenth century Hikayat Raja-Raja Pasai court chronicle can be used to understand the Samudra-Pasai port-polity and its legitimation. The local pre-Islamic north Sumatra order is first portrayed in the Hikayat, which highlights the sovereign's mythical attributes. Indian Ocean commercial and diplomatic channels then provided…

  • Personal Status and Ritualized Exchange in Majapahit Java

    Kenneth R HallARTICLEArchipel2000Cited by: 4References: 1

    Kenneth R. Hall Durant la période des années 1200-1500, la mobilité dans l'échelle sociale javanaise s'explique par une richesse nouvelle et des opportunités de distinction de statut. La cour encouragea l'élite des communautés rurales à se penser comme partie d'un ordre royal hiérarchique basé sur les lignées et à participer à la vénération des ancêtres du roi. Une personne pouvait prendre place dans le réseau rituel royal et profiter d'une améli…

  • Southeast Asian Exports since the 14th Century: Cloves, Pepper, Coffee, and Sugar. Compiled by David Bulbeck, Anthony Reid, Lay Cheng Tan and Yiqu Wu. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, …

    Open AccessKenneth R HallARTICLEJournal of Southeast Asian Studies1999

    Southeast Asian Exports since the 14th Century: Cloves, Pepper, Coffee, and Sugar. Compiled by David Bulbeck, Anthony Reid, Lay Cheng Tan and Yiqu Wu. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1998. Pp, xii, 195. Graphs, Maps, Tables, Bibliography. - Volume 30 Issue 2