The Evidence of Ceramics as an Aid in Understanding the Pattern of Trade in the Philippines and Southeast Asia
Title | The Evidence of Ceramics as an Aid in Understanding the Pattern of Trade in the Philippines and Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Aurora Roxas Lim |
Publisher | Institute of Asian Studies Chulalongkorn University |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia
Title | Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Robert S. Wicks |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 2018-05-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501719475 |
This substantial work explores the impact of monetization in premodern Southeast Asia from the third century BCE to the rise of Maleka in the early fifteenth century. The author explores why concepts of money developed unevenly throughout the region. He considers trade policies, price controls, exchange ratios, monopolies, variant standards of value, and the administrative structures required to support such a complex economic innovation.
Oceanic Histories
Title | Oceanic Histories PDF eBook |
Author | David Armitage |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108423183 |
Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original chapters by leading experts in their fields.
Clio/Anthropos
Title | Clio/Anthropos PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Tagliacozzo |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2009-08-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0804772401 |
The intersection between history and anthropology is more varied now than it has ever been—a look at the shelves of bookstores and libraries proves this. Historians have increasingly looked to the methodologies of anthropologists to explain inequalities of power, problems of voicelessness, and conceptions of social change from an inside perspective. And ethnologists have increasingly relied on longitudinal visions of their subjects, inquiries framed by the lens of history rather than purely structuralist, culturalist, or functionalist visions of behavior. The contributors have dealt with the problems and possibilities of the blurring of these boundaries in different and exciting ways. They provide further fodder for a cross-disciplinary experiment that is already well under way, describing peoples and their cultures in a world where boundaries are evermore fluid but where we all are alarmingly attached to the cataloguing and marking of national, ethnic, racial, and religious differences.
Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines
Title | Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines PDF eBook |
Author | Linda A. Newson |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2009-04-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0824832728 |
Scholars have long assumed that Spanish colonial rule had only a limited demographic impact on the Philippines. Filipinos, they believed, had acquired immunity to Old World diseases prior to Spanish arrival; conquest was thought to have been more benign than what took place in the Americas because of more enlightened colonial policies introduced by Philip II. Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines illuminates the demographic history of the Spanish Philippines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and, in the process, challenges these assumptions. In this provocative new work, Linda Newson convincingly demonstrates that the Filipino population suffered a significant decline in the early colonial period. Newson argues that the sparse population of the islands meant that Old World diseases could not become endemic in pre-Spanish times. She also shows that the initial conquest of the Philippines was far bloodier than has often been supposed and that subsequent Spanish demands for tribute, labor, and land brought socioeconomic transformations and depopulation that were prolonged beyond the early conquest years. Comparisons are made with the impact of Spanish colonial rule in the Americas. Newson adopts a regional approach and examines critically each major area in Luzon and the Visayas in turn. Building on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, she proposes a new estimate for the population of the Visayas and Luzon of 1.57 million in 1565—slightly higher than that suggested by previous studies—and calculates that by the mid-seventeenth century this figure may have fallen by about two-thirds. Based on extensive archival research conducted in secular and missionary archives in the Philippines, Spain, and elsewhere, Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines is an exemplary contribution to our understanding of the formative influences on demographic change in premodern Southeast Asian society and the history of the early Spanish Philippines.
Prosperity, Region, and Institutions in Maritime China
Title | Prosperity, Region, and Institutions in Maritime China PDF eBook |
Author | Billy K.L. So |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 501 |
Release | 2020-03-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1684173485 |
Prosperity signifies success in economic performance. Economic performance always takes place in a spatial context. And institutions matter in economic performance. These three interwoven themes underlie this inquiry into the regional economy of southern Fukien province during the Sung and Yuan dynasties, when the area was one of the most prosperous regions in China. Through a meticulous reading of the sources, the author seeks to understand the meaning of prosperity in the premodern Chinese context and argues that we have to understand economic performance as a process occurring in space and influenced by institutions, which affect economic actors particularly through the means of transaction costs.
The Malay Peninsula
Title | The Malay Peninsula PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Jacq-Hergoualc’h |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 787 |
Release | 2018-12-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047400682 |
This book attempts to evaluate the role of the Malay Peninsula as a crossroads in the great wave of commercial relationships along the maritime Silk Road from the first centuries of the Christian era to the 14th century. Through these exchanges, representatives of all the civilizations of Asia entered into contact along its shores. They left in this place a part of themselves, as can be seen in the great stylistic diversity of the religious and commercial artefacts which have been found in the area. These artefacts have been analysed and categorized afresh in the light of more precise information provided in Chinese texts concerning the nature of the political entities developing at the time: often dynamic city states or more modest chiefdoms.