Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers – Violence and Clandestine Trade in the Greater China Seas

AvRobert Antony,Professor Antony, Robert J

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

This book examines the extent, diffusion, and characteristics of piracy and smuggling in the Greater China Seas over the past six centuries. The chapters in this book argue that violence and clandestine trade played significant roles in the development of modern Asian societies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-06-01
Mått:165 x 237 x 21 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:220
Förlag:Hong Kong University Press
ISBN:9789888028115

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Robert Antony teaches modern East Asian and comparative history at the University of Macau. His research focuses on maritime history as well as the history of crime and society in modern China. In addition to many articles on piracy in Asian and world history, he has published two other books on pirates, Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China (2003) and Pirates in the Age of Sail (2007). He is currently preparing a new book on pirates and society in South China from 1837 to 1937.

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This interesting anthology brings together the latest research on Asian piracy - from Japan and the Riau and Philippine islands to Singapore and China - between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries by scholars from as far afield as the US, the PRC (Hong Kong and Macau), Australia, British Columbia, France, Taiwan, and Japan. -- Dian Murray, University of Notre Dame