Secondary cities and urban networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800
By: edited by Kenneth R. Hall.
Contributors: Hall, Kenneth R.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739128343; 9780739128350
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Indian Ocean Region -- History; Indian Ocean Region -- Civilization
Description: "With the closure of the overland Silk Road in the fourteenth century following the collapse of the Mongol empire, the Indian Ocean provided the remaining vital link for wider cultural, political, and societal integrations prior to the Western colonial presence. Collectively, the studies in Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800 explore the history of non-metropolitan urban settings, from the Ottoman Empire and the African coastline at the mouth of the Red Sea in the west to China in the east." "Kenneth R. Hall has collected 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, and allows them the opportunity to compare approaches, methods, and sources in the hopes of discovering common features as well as notable differences."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Autonomy and subordination : the cultural dynamics of small cities / Stephen Morillo; title: Suakin : a port city of the early modern Sudan / Jay Spaulding; title: India from Aden : Khutba and Muslim urban networks in late thirteenth-century India / Elizabeth Lambourn; title: At the intersection of empire and world trade : the Chinese port city of Quanzhou (Zaitun), eleventh-fifteenth centuries / John Chaffee; title: Clearing the fields and strengthening the walls : defending small cities in late Ming China / Kenneth M. Swope; title: Secondary capitals of Dai Viet : shifting elite power bases / John K. Whitmore; title: Coastal cities in an age of transition : upstream-downstream networking and societal development in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century maritime Southeast Asia / Kenneth R. Hall; title: Missionary Buddhism in a post-ancient world : monks, merchants, and colonial expansion in seventeenth-century Cochinchina (Vietnam) / Charles Wheeler; title: Religious networking and upstream Buddhist wall paintings in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Burma / Alexandra Green; title: The Ottoman Balkan city : the periphery as center in punitive spectacle / Charles Argo; title: A tale of three cities : Burhanpur from 1400 to 1800 / Stewart Gordon; title: Urban primacy and urban hierarchy : four examples from southern India, c. 1000-1800 / James Heitzman.