Secondary Cities & Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800

Herausgeber: Hall, Kenneth R.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume features the research of international scholars, whose work addresses the representative history of small cities and urban networking in various parts of the Indian Ocean world in an era of change, allowing them the opportunity to compare approaches, methods, and sources in the hopes of discovering common features as well as notable differences.

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Produktdetails

• Comparative Urban Studies Nr.1
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9780739128350
• ISBN-10: 0739128353
• Artikelnr.: 24478473

Autorenporträt

Kenneth R. Hall is professor of history at Ball State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1. Autonomy and Subordination: The Cultural Dynamics
of Small Cities Chapter 2. Suakin: A Port City of the Early Modern Sudan
Chapter 3. India from Aden: Khutba and Muslim Urban Networks in Late
Thirteenth-Century India Chapter 4. At the Intersection of Empire and World
Trade: The Chinese Port City of Quanzhou (Zaitun), Eleventh-Fifteenth
Centuries Chapter 5. Clearing the Fields and Strengthening the Walls:
Defending Small Cities in Late Ming China Chapter 6. Secondary Capitals of
Dai Viet: Shifting Elite Power Bases Chapter 7. Coastal Cities in an Age of
Transition: Upstream-Downstream Networking and Societal Development in
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Maritime Southeast Asia Chapter 8.
Missionary Buddhism in a Post-Ancient World: Monks, Merchants, and Colonial
Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Cochinchina (Vietnam) Chapter 9. Religious
Networking and Upstream Buddhist Wall Paintings in Seventeenth- and
Eighteenth-Century Burma Chapter 10. The Ottoman Balkan City: The Periphery
as Center in Punitive Spectacle Chapter 11. A Tale of Three Cities:
Burhanpur from 1400 to 1800 Chapter 12. Urban Primacy and Urban Hierarchy:
Four Examples from Southern India, c. 1000-1800