| Offshore Asia: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia Before Steamships Contributor(s): Kayoko, Fujita (Editor), Shiro, Momoki (Editor), Reid, Anthony (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9814311774 ISBN-13: 9789814311779 Publisher: Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute OUR PRICE: $67.37 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - Southeast Asia - Political Science | Political Process - General |
| Dewey: 320.959 |
| LCCN: 2014318317 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.06 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This exemplary work of international collaboration takes a comparative approach to the histories of Northeast and Southeast Asia, with contributions from scholars from Japan, Korea and the Englishspeaking academic world. The new scholarship represented by this volume demonstrates that the vast and growing commercial interactions between the countries of eastern Asia have long historical roots. The so-called "opening" to Western trade in the mid-nineteenth century, which is typically seen as the beginning of this process, is shown to be rather the reversal of a relatively temporary phase of state consolidation in the long eighteenth century. |