Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600–c.1906

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Publication Name: Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c. Indeed, some of the world’s most prized commodities once came from territories which were either “stateless” or under the tenuous control of loosely structured polities in this region. The results may be jagged, but a little uncertainty is preferable to a misleading homogenisation which could preclude promising avenues of enquiry. In 1970, she started her academic profession as a history teacher at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In using your information, NUS Press will follow our privacy policies, under the provisions of Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act.

It will also appeal to those working on wider themes such as global history, state formation, the evolution of markets, and anthropology. The first report available details an important excavation of 14th century material at the Singapore Cricket Club.

The eastern archipelagos stretch from Mindanao and Sulu in the north to Bali in the southwest and New Guinea in the southeast. The following is an excerpt from Chapter Three of Malaysiakini and the Power of Independent Media in Malaysia, by Janet Steele, launched September 12, 2023.

In this volume, the East Asian Institute in Singapore brings together an exceptional team of world-leading China experts from Asia, the United States, Europe and Australia to set out the future implications of trends in CPC politics and governance in CPC General Party Secretary Xi Jinping’s “New Era. In 1974, Sutherland joined the faculty of the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Non-Western Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as a " lector" (equivalent to associate professor).If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account. Indeed, some of the world’s most prized commodities once came from territories which were either “stateless” or under the very tenuous control of loosely structured polities. Under Benda, Sutherland earned her doctoral degree in 1973 on the thesis titled " Pangreh Pradja: Java's indigenous administrative corps and its role in the last decades of Dutch colonial rule. This eBook can be accessed through the free Dymocks eReader app, ( iOS, Android, Windows), or downloaded via Adobe Digital Editions (and other . Seaways and Gatekeepersforces us to reconsider how much frontiers shape the history of state formation and nation-building in the region.

In this book, trade provides the integrating framework for local and regional histories that cover more than three hundred years, from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, when new technologies and changing markets helped lead to Western dominance. by the author and a collection of essays on the city’s representation should provide further context. The global implications of China’s transition to an innovation-led economy will be significant, given its size and the degree of China’s integration into world trade and global value chains.These centres, large and small, connected fishing communities, inland foragers and shifting cultivators to exchange systems stretching as far as Europe, India, China and Japan.