Frank Broeze

Gateways Of Asia

Port Cities of Asia in the 13th-20th Centuries

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Produktbeschreibung

The Asian continent has a maritime tradition spanning as far back as the third millennium BC, and its port cities have for centuries had a social and cultural character radically different from those on the shores of the Atlantic. A fresh and innovative perspective on Asian history, economic development, and urbanization, Gateways of Asia focuses on the vital role played by ports and port cities across the centuries. The authors explore these cities as links to each other and to the outside world, as meeting grounds of indigenous and overseas cultures and as the stageposts for struggles of expansion, imperialism, and colonialism. A range of multidisciplinary studies discuss cities including Bangkok, Kobe, Kuwait, Bombay, Banten, and Vladivostok from the thirteenth century to the present. Reflecting on both the influences of modernization and Westernization and the impact of traditional, inland cultures on the development of these cities, Gateways of Asia is a significant chapter in the understanding of multicultural interaction over history, from the vantage point of the contemporary global village.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780710305541
• ISBN-10: 0710305540
• Artikelnr.: 54572286

Autorenporträt

Frank Broeze Department of History, University of Western Australia

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
brides of the sea revisited; Aden in pre
Turkish times (1232
1538)
the Arabian entreport of the western Asian seas; Masulipatnam revisited, 1550
1750
a survey and some speculations; Banten around the turn of the sixteenth century: trade and society in an Indonesian port city; Penang, 1786
1832
a promise unfulfilled; Bombay and the famine of 1803
1806
the food supply and public order of a colonial port city; Kuwait before oil
the dynamics and morphology of an Arab port city; Colombo and the re
making of Ceylon: a prototype of colonial Asian port cities; Bangkok in the 19th and 20th centuries
the dynamics and limits of port primacy; Kobe and Niigata
situation and site in the development of two Japanese port cities; Vladivostok
city and ocean in Russia's far east; Alleppey
from a port without a city to a city without a port; Asian ports since 1945
maritime change and port rivalry; Japan's seaports during the era of high
speed growth, 1960
1975.