Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, C. 1400-1800

Name: Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, C. 1400-1800
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ISBN: 9780739128350

ISBN-10: 0739128353

ISBN-13: 9780739128350

Edition: 2008

Authors: Kenneth R. Hall, Charles Argo, John Chaffee, Stewart Gordon, Alexandra Green

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With the closure of the overland Silk Road in the fourteenth century following the collapse of the Mongol empire, the Indian Ocean provided the remaining vital link for wider cultural, political, and societal integrations prior to the Western colonial presence. Collectively, the studies in Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800 explore the history of non-metropolitan urban settings, from the Ottoman Empire and the African coastline at the mouth of the Red Sea in the west to China in the east. This was an age of heightened international commercial exchange that predated the European arrival, which in the Indian Ocean paired Islamic expansionism and…

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List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 8/28/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 370
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Stewart Gordonis Senior Research Scholar at the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan, and author of three books on Asia. He lives in Ann Arbor.



Illustrations


Contributors


Acknowledgments


Introduction




Autonomy and Subordination: The Cultural Dynamics of Small Cities




Suakin: A Port City of the Early Modern Sudan




India from Aden: Khutba and Muslim Urban Networks in Late Thirteenth-Century India




At the Intersection of Empire and World Trade: The Chinese Port City of Quanzhou (Zaitun), Eleventh-Fifteenth Centuries




Clearing the Fields and Strengthening the Walls: Defending Small Cities in Late Ming China




Secondary Capitals of Dai Viet: Shifting Elite Power Bases




Coastal Cities in an Age of Transition: Upstream-Downstream Networking and Societal Development in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Maritime Southeast Asia




Missionary Buddhism in a Post-Ancient World: Monks, Merchants, and Colonial Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Cochinchina (Vietnam)




Religious Networking and Upstream Buddhist Wall Paintings in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Burma




The Ottoman Balkan City: The Periphery as Center in Punitive Spectacle




A Tale of Three Cities: Burhanpur from 1400 to 1800




Secondary Cities and Spatial Templates in South India, 1300-1800



Index