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Water Frontier
. Ed(S): Cooke, Nola; Tana, Li
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Description for Water Frontier
Hardback. Editor(s): Cooke, Nola; Tana, Li. Series: World Social Change. Num Pages: 216 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JF; HBJF; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 188 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Water Frontier focuses principally on southwest Indochina (from modern southern Vietnam into eastern Cambodia and southwestern Thailand), which it calls the Lower Mekong region. The book's excellent contributors argue that, during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this area formed a single trading zone woven together by the regular itineraries of thousands of large and small junk traders. This zone in turn formed a regional component of the wider trade networks that linked southern China to all of Southeast Asia. This is the 'water frontier' of the title, a sparsely settled coastal and riverine frontier region of mixed ethnicities and ... Read more
Water Frontier focuses principally on southwest Indochina (from modern southern Vietnam into eastern Cambodia and southwestern Thailand), which it calls the Lower Mekong region. The book's excellent contributors argue that, during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this area formed a single trading zone woven together by the regular itineraries of thousands of large and small junk traders. This zone in turn formed a regional component of the wider trade networks that linked southern China to all of Southeast Asia. This is the 'water frontier' of the title, a sparsely settled coastal and riverine frontier region of mixed ethnicities and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
World Social Change
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742530829
SKU
V9780742530829
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About . Ed(S): Cooke, Nola; Tana, Li
Nola Cooke is research fellow in the Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. Li Tana is senior fellow in the Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University.
Reviews for Water Frontier
Water Frontier opens up a promising new view of mainland Southeast Asia, using ignored and recently discovered sources to piece together life on a little-noted maritime frontier. Challenging how national stories hide regional dynamics, the authors raise questions that will intrigue scholars for years to come.
Richard A. O'Connor, Sewanee: The University of the South This volume manages to ... Read more
Richard A. O'Connor, Sewanee: The University of the South This volume manages to ... Read more