History Without Borders

The Making of an Asian World Region (1000–1800)

Bibliographic Data

ID20024200
AuthorsGeoffrey C Gunn (corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages416
Publication date2011-10-04
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHistory Without Borders: The Making of an Asian World region, 1000-1800 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherHong Kong University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5790/hongkong/9789888083343.001.0001
OpenAlexW406301504
ISBN9789888083343
Open LibraryOL25168023M
LanguageEN
Citations received14

Astride the historical maritime silk routes linking India to China, premodern East and Southeast Asia can be viewed as a global region in the making over a long period. Intense Asian commerce in spices, silks, and ceramics placed the region at the forefront of global economic history prior to the age of imperialism. Alongside the correlated silver trade among Japanese, Europeans, Muslims, and others, China's age-old tributary trade networks provided the essential stability and continuity enabling a brilliant age of commerce. This book highlights the role of civilization that developed along with global trade in rare and everyday Asian commodities, raising a range of questions regarding unequal development, intraregional knowledge advances, the origins of globalization, and the emergence of new Asian hybridities beyond and within the conventional boundaries of the nation-state. Chapters range over the intra-Asian trade in silver and ceramics, the Chinese junk trade, the rise of European trading companies as well as diasporic communities including the historic Japan-towns of Southeast Asia, and many types of technology exchanges

Ancient history · Archaeology · China · Civilization · East Asia · Economics · Economy · Geography · Globalization · Political science · State (computer science) · World history · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Commerce · Economic conditions · Southeast asia

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