Martha Chaiklin
Biographic Data
| ID | 722448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha Chaiklin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha |
| FAMILY NAME | Chaiklin |
| SIGNATURE | CHAIKLIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Namban Trade
Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
American Baroque
On March 5, 2019, a ruckus erupted in the New Hampshire state legislature when lawmakers wore strings of pearls to support a gun-rights advocacy group. The supporters of gun control felt mocked as pearl clutchers, while the adorned lawmakers and the gun-possession advocates they were supporting claimed they wore the necklaces as badges of conservatism. This little bit of local drama highlights the complexities embodied in our understandings of pe…
Surat
In the eighteenth century, Surat was perhaps the single most important port city of the Moghul empire, if not the world. Dutch, English, French, and Portuguese ships were called from Africa and Brazil to obtain Gujarati textiles, side by side with dhows from the throughout the Indian Ocean. This textile trade was underpinned by ivory, large amounts of which poured in the city both by caravan and by sea. Even though Surat, or even Gujarat, was not…
The Stories Clothes Tell
Reviewed by: The Stories Clothes Tell: Voices of Working-Class Japan by Tatsuichi Horikiri Martha Chaiklin The Stories Clothes Tell: Voices of Working-Class Japan. By Tatsuichi Horikiri. Edited and translated by Rieko Wagoner. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. 206 pages. Hardcover, $84.00/£54.95; softcover, $31.00/£21.95. The low value that the academy places on translations has led to a dearth of contemporary nonfiction materials about pre…
Encounters on the Opposite Coast
Michael Talbot, British-Ottoman Relations, 1661-1807: Commerce and Diplomatic Practice in Eighteenth-Century Instanbul, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017, 270 pp. ISBN 978-1-783-27202-0. $120.00
Reconsidering the Yokohama “Gold Rush” of 1859
Great Power gunboat diplomacy brought a host of problems to Japan’s shores. The initial Kanagawa Treaty of 1854 was innocuous enough, merely allowing foreign ships to call at specified ports for supplies, but the commercial treaties hammered out by Townsend Harris and employed by other Western nations were another matter. These “unequal” treaties created disputes over property, jurisdictions, trade methods, and more than anything else, money. Ind…
Portuguese, Dutch, and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c. 1585–1800
Adam Clulow. The Company and the Shogun
The Dutch Trading Companies as Knowledge Networks
Ivory in World History – Early Modern Trade in Context
Ivory was the cause of the some of the oldest trading networks in human history. It is part of our cultural landscape yet ivory has commonly only been viewed through the lens of slavery or conservation. This article takes a broad look at the place of ivory in human history, from prehistoric times to the 19th century, with emphasis on the early modern world. Ivory trade is set against the backdrop of the environmental and evolutionary history of t…
Asian Material Culture
Table of Contents - 6[-]Foreword - 8[-]ASIAN MATERIAL CULTURE IN CONTEXT - 10[-]MOON CAKES AND THE CHINESE MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL: A MATTER OF HABITUS - 18[-]UP IN THE HAIR: STRANDS OF MEANING IN WOMEN'S ORNAMENTAL HAIR ACCESSORIES IN EARLY MODERN JAPAN - 38[-]NONYA BEADWORK AND CONTEMPORARY PERANAKAN CHINESE CULTURE IN SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA - 66[-]EVERYBODY WAS KUNG-FU FIGHTING: THE LION DANCE AND CHINESE NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CEN…
Ivory in Early Modern Ceylon
In Sri Lanka elephants are endangered and ivory carving, as an art, is dead. Sri Lanka was once famous for the number and quality of its elephants, whose tusks were carved and exported since ancient times. Although Sri Lanka became, successively, a pivotal outpost for the Portuguese, Dutch and English, details about the Ceylonese ivory trade appear in trade documents only rarely. And yet, if information is not to be found there, does that mean iv…
Ivory in World History – Early Modern Trade in Context
Ivory was the cause of the some of the oldest trading networks in human history. It is part of our cultural landscape yet ivory has commonly only been viewed through the lens of slavery or conservation. This article takes a broad look at the place of ivory in human history, from prehistoric times to the 19th century, with emphasis on the early modern world. Ivory trade is set against the backdrop of the environmental and evolutionary history of t…
Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
Ivory in Early Modern Ceylon
In Sri Lanka elephants are endangered and ivory carving, as an art, is dead. Sri Lanka was once famous for the number and quality of its elephants, whose tusks were carved and exported since ancient times. Although Sri Lanka became, successively, a pivotal outpost for the Portuguese, Dutch and English, details about the Ceylonese ivory trade appear in trade documents only rarely. And yet, if information is not to be found there, does that mean iv…
Asian Material Culture
Table of Contents - 6[-]Foreword - 8[-]ASIAN MATERIAL CULTURE IN CONTEXT - 10[-]MOON CAKES AND THE CHINESE MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL: A MATTER OF HABITUS - 18[-]UP IN THE HAIR: STRANDS OF MEANING IN WOMEN'S ORNAMENTAL HAIR ACCESSORIES IN EARLY MODERN JAPAN - 38[-]NONYA BEADWORK AND CONTEMPORARY PERANAKAN CHINESE CULTURE IN SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA - 66[-]EVERYBODY WAS KUNG-FU FIGHTING: THE LION DANCE AND CHINESE NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CEN…
Ivory in Early Modern Ceylon
In Sri Lanka elephants are endangered and ivory carving, as an art, is dead. Sri Lanka was once famous for the number and quality of its elephants, whose tusks were carved and exported since ancient times. Although Sri Lanka became, successively, a pivotal outpost for the Portuguese, Dutch and English, details about the Ceylonese ivory trade appear in trade documents only rarely. And yet, if information is not to be found there, does that mean iv…
Ivory in World History – Early Modern Trade in Context
Ivory was the cause of the some of the oldest trading networks in human history. It is part of our cultural landscape yet ivory has commonly only been viewed through the lens of slavery or conservation. This article takes a broad look at the place of ivory in human history, from prehistoric times to the 19th century, with emphasis on the early modern world. Ivory trade is set against the backdrop of the environmental and evolutionary history of t…
The Dutch Trading Companies as Knowledge Networks
Portuguese, Dutch, and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c. 1585–1800
Adam Clulow. The Company and the Shogun
Reconsidering the Yokohama “Gold Rush” of 1859
Great Power gunboat diplomacy brought a host of problems to Japan’s shores. The initial Kanagawa Treaty of 1854 was innocuous enough, merely allowing foreign ships to call at specified ports for supplies, but the commercial treaties hammered out by Townsend Harris and employed by other Western nations were another matter. These “unequal” treaties created disputes over property, jurisdictions, trade methods, and more than anything else, money. Ind…
Encounters on the Opposite Coast
Michael Talbot, British-Ottoman Relations, 1661-1807: Commerce and Diplomatic Practice in Eighteenth-Century Instanbul, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017, 270 pp. ISBN 978-1-783-27202-0. $120.00
Surat
In the eighteenth century, Surat was perhaps the single most important port city of the Moghul empire, if not the world. Dutch, English, French, and Portuguese ships were called from Africa and Brazil to obtain Gujarati textiles, side by side with dhows from the throughout the Indian Ocean. This textile trade was underpinned by ivory, large amounts of which poured in the city both by caravan and by sea. Even though Surat, or even Gujarat, was not…
The Stories Clothes Tell
Reviewed by: The Stories Clothes Tell: Voices of Working-Class Japan by Tatsuichi Horikiri Martha Chaiklin The Stories Clothes Tell: Voices of Working-Class Japan. By Tatsuichi Horikiri. Edited and translated by Rieko Wagoner. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. 206 pages. Hardcover, $84.00/£54.95; softcover, $31.00/£21.95. The low value that the academy places on translations has led to a dearth of contemporary nonfiction materials about pre…
Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
American Baroque
On March 5, 2019, a ruckus erupted in the New Hampshire state legislature when lawmakers wore strings of pearls to support a gun-rights advocacy group. The supporters of gun control felt mocked as pearl clutchers, while the adorned lawmakers and the gun-possession advocates they were supporting claimed they wore the necklaces as badges of conservatism. This little bit of local drama highlights the complexities embodied in our understandings of pe…
The Namban Trade
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