Bin Yang

Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money (eBook, PDF)

A Global History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Yang provides a global examination of cowrie money within and beyond Afro-Eurasia from the archaeological period to the early twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429952340
• Artikelnr.: 54784876

Autorenporträt

Bin Yang is Associate Professor of History at the University of Macau. His research interests include Chinese history, frontier and ethnic studies, Sino-Southeast Asian-Indian triangular interactions, world history, and history of science, technology and medicine. His dissertation "Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE - Twentieth Century CE)" won the 2004 Gutenberg-e Prize of the American Historical Association, and it was published online as well as in print by Columbia University Press. He has published research papers in some internationally prestigious journals such as The China Quarterly, Modern Asian Studies, Journal of World History, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, and Journal of Women's History. He is one of the founding member of the Asian Association of World Historians and serves as Manning Editor of the Asian Reviews of World Histories.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Global Phenomenon, Local Varieties
Chapter Two: The Maldives: Procurement and Export
Chapter Three: India: In the Beginning
Chapter Four: Southeast Asia: Intra-Asian Interactions
Chapter Five: Yunnan: An Indian Influence in the Southeast Asian-Chinese
World
Chapter Six: Why Not in Early China?
Chapter Seven: Cowrie Money in West Africa: Connecting the Worlds, Old and
New
Chapter Eight: The Pacific Islands and North America: Out of the Bengali
System
Chapter Nine: More Than Just Money
Chapter Ten: The Cowrie Money World
Bibliography
Index