Philip Bowring

Empire of the Winds

The Global Role of Asia's Great Archipelago

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Penang Book Prize 2019 Nusantaria - often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' - is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantara, a Sanskrit, then Malay, word referring to an island realm, is here adapted to become Nusantaria - denoting a slightly wider world but one with a single linguistic, cultural and trading base. Nusantaria encompasses the lands and shores created by the melting of the ice following the last Ice Age. These have long been primarily the domain of the Austronesian-speaking peoples and their seafaring traditions. The surrounding waters have always been uniquely important as a corridor connecting East Asia to India, the Middle East, Europe and Africa. In this book, Philip Bowring provides a history of the world's largest and most important archipelago and its adjacent coasts. He tells the story of the peoples and lands located at this crucial maritime and cultural crossroads, from its birth following the last Ice Age to today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 161mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9781788314466
• ISBN-10: 1788314468
• Artikelnr.: 53563382

Autorenporträt

Philip Bowring is an Asia-based journalist. He was formerly the editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and has written for the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the South China Morning Post and the Guardian. He studied at Cambridge University and is an expert on maritime history and the history of Southeast Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps and Illustrations Glossary Preface Introduction 1. Child of a
Drowned Parent 2. Nusantaria's Defining Features and Early People 3. To
Babylon and Back 4. Ghosts of Early Empires 5. Culture from India, Goods
from China 6. Srivijaya: Vanished Great Mandala 7. Java Takes Centre Stage
8. Tamil Tigers of Trade 9. Champa: Master of the East Sea 10. Malagasy
Genes and African Echoes 11. China Raises its Head 12. The Majapahit Good
Life 13. Tremble and Obey: the Zheng He Voyages 14. Nails, Dowels and
Improbable Ships 15. Malay Melaka's Lasting Legacy 16. The Northern
Outliers 17. Islam's Great Leap East 18. Nusantaria: Holed near the
Waterline 19. Barangays and Baybayin 20. Makassar, Bugis and Freedom of the
Seas 21. Where Kings Reign but Priests Rule 22. The Sulu Factor: Trading,
Raiding, Slaving 23. Nusantaria's Existential Crisis 24. Labour, Capital,
Kongsi: The Power of the Chinese 25. High Noon of Occupation 26. Empty
Lands No Longer 27. Freedom, Fears and the Future Notes Bibliography Index