The Growth of Non-Western Cities

Primary and Secondary Urban Networking, c. 900-1900
Herausgeber: Hall, Kenneth R.

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Produktbeschreibung

These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman Middle East, and South, Southeast, and East Asia. Therein, primary and secondary cities served as functional societal agents that were viable and potentially powerful alternatives to the diversity of kinship-based local or regional networks, the societal delegated spaces in which local and external agencies met and interacted in a wide variety of political, economic, spiritual, and military forms. They were variously transportation centers, sites of a central temples, court and secular administration centers, fortified military compounds, intellectual (literary) activity cores, and marketplace and/or craft production sites. One element of these urban centers' existence might have been more important than others, as a political capital, a cultural capital, or an economic capital. In the post-1500 era of increasing globalization, especially with the introduction of new technologies of transport, communication, and warfare, non-Western cities even more became the hubs of knowledge, societal, and cultural formation and exchange because of the location of both markets and political centers in urban areas. New forms of professionalism, militarization, and secular bureaucratization were foundational to centralizing state hierarchies that could exert more control over their networked segments. This book's authors consciously attempt to balance the histories of functional urban agency between the local and the exogenous, giving weight to local activities, events, beliefs, institutions, communities, individuals, and historical narratives. In several studies, both external and internal societal prejudices and the inability of key decision makers to understand indigenous reality led to negative consequences both in the local environment and in the global arena.

Produktdetails

• Comparative Urban Studies
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9780739149997
• ISBN-10: 0739149997
• Artikelnr.: 32941662

Autorenporträt

Edited by Kenneth R. Hall - Contributions by Christopher Agnew; Michael H. Chiang; Hugh Clark; Marc Jason Gilbert; Elizabeth Lambourn; Peter Mentzel; Stephen Morillo; Hyunhee Park; Jay Spaulding; Aurea Toxqui and John K. Whitmore

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Cities, Networks, and Cultures
of Knowledge: A Global Overview Part 3 Part I: Urban Networking in the
Early Indian Ocean Realm Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Port-City Networking in the
Indian Ocean Commercial System Represented in Geographic and Cartographic
Works in China and the Islamic West from c. 750 to 1500 Chapter 5 Chapter
3: Secondary Ports and Their Cults: Religious Innovation in the Port System
of Greater Quangzhou (Southern China) in the 10th-12th Centuries Chapter 6
Chapter 4: Buddhist Conversions and the Creation of Urban Hierarchies in
Vietnam and Cambodia, c. 1000-1200 Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Why Did Le Van
Thinh Revolt? Buddhism and Political Integration in Early 12th Century Dai
Viet Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Khuba and Muslim Networks in the Indian Ocean
(Part II) - Timurid and Ottoman Engagements Chapter 9 Chapter 7:
Urbanization and Ironworking in the Nubian State Tradition Part 10 Part II:
Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Non-Western World, c.
1500-1900 Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Dengzhou and the Bohai Gulf in
Seventeenth-Century Northeast Asia Chapter 12 Chapter 9: The Origins of the
Post Designation System in the Qing Field Administration Network Chapter 13
Chapter 10: The Collapse of the English Trade Entrepôts at Pulo Condore and
Banjarmasin and the Legacy of Early British East India Company Urban
Network-Building in Southeast Asia Chapter 14 Chapter 11: Taverns and Their
Influence on the Suburban Culture of Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico City
Chapter 15 Chapter 12: Networks, Railroads, and Small Cities in the Ottoman
Balkans