Asian Connections – serie
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30 produkter
Hajj across Empires
Pilgrimage and Political Culture after the Mughals, 1739-1857
Häftad, 2025
504 kr
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Rishad Choudhury presents a new history of imperial connections across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857, a period that witnessed the decline and collapse of Mughal rule and the consolidation of British colonialism in South Asia. In this highly original and comprehensive study, he reveals how the …
Beyond the Silk Roads
Häftad, 2025
508 kr
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Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative. This ambitious study provides a unique insight into the lives of the mobile traders from …
Hajj across Empires
Pilgrimage and Political Culture after the Mughals, 1739-1857
Inbunden, 2024
1726 kr
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Rishad Choudhury presents a new history of imperial connections across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857, a period that witnessed the decline and collapse of Mughal rule and the consolidation of British colonialism in South Asia. In this highly original and comprehensive study, he reveals how the …
Networks of Faith and Profit
Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges between China and Japan, 839–1403 CE
Av Yiwen Li
Häftad, 2025
504 kr
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Between 839 and 1403 CE, there was a six-century lapse in diplomatic relations between present-day China and Japan. This hiatus in what is known as the tribute system has led to an assumption that there was little contact between the two countries in this period. Yiwen Li debunks this assumption, …
Networks of Faith and Profit
Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE
Av Yiwen Li
Inbunden, 2023
1592 kr
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Between 839 and 1403 CE, there was a six-century lapse in diplomatic relations between present-day China and Japan. This hiatus in what is known as the tribute system has led to an assumption that there was little contact between the two countries in this period. Yiwen Li debunks this assumption, …
China and the Philippines
A Connected History, c. 1900-50
Häftad, 2025
508 kr
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Foregrounding the entangled history of China and the Philippines, Guingona brings to life an array of understudied, but influential characters, such as Filipino jazz musicians, magnetic Chinese swimmers, expert Filipino marksmen, leading Chinese educators, Philippine-Chinese bankers, Filipina …
China and the Philippines
A Connected History, c. 1900-50
Inbunden, 2023
1442 kr
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Foregrounding the entangled history of China and the Philippines, Guingona brings to life an array of understudied, but influential characters, such as Filipino jazz musicians, magnetic Chinese swimmers, expert Filipino marksmen, leading Chinese educators, Philippine-Chinese bankers, Filipina …
The Crisis of Global Modernity
Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future
Inbunden, 2014
1362 kr
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In this major new study, Prasenjit Duara expands his influential theoretical framework to present circulatory, transnational histories as an alternative to nationalist history. Duara argues that the present day is defined by the intersection of three global changes: the rise of non-western powers, …
Early Modern China and Northeast Asia
Cross-Border Perspectives
Inbunden, 2015
1391 kr
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In this revisionist history of early modern China, Evelyn Rawski challenges the notion of Chinese history as a linear narrative of dynasties dominated by the Central Plains and Hans Chinese culture from a unique, peripheral perspective. Rawski argues that China has been shaped by its relations with …
Cities in Motion
Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920-1940
Av Su Lin Lewis
Inbunden, 2016
1619 kr
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In the 1920s and 1930s, the port-cities of Southeast Asia were staging grounds for diverse groups of ordinary citizens to experiment with modernity, as a rising Japan and American capitalism challenged the predominance of European empires after the First World War. Both migrants and locals played a …
A Sea of Debt
Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950
Inbunden, 2017
1577 kr
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In this innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, Bishara examines the transformations of Islamic law and Islamicate commercial practices during the emergence of modern capitalism in the region. In this time of expanding commercial activity, a mélange of Arab, Indian, …
Abraham's Luggage
A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World
Inbunden, 2018
1677 kr
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From a single merchant's list of baggage begins a history that explores the dynamic world of medieval Indian Ocean exchanges. This fresh and innovative perspective on Jewish merchant activity shows how this list was a component of broader trade connections that developed between the Islamic …
Becoming Arab
Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World
Inbunden, 2017
1624 kr
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Sumit K. Mandal uncovers the hybridity and transregional connections underlying modern Asian identities. By considering Arabs in the Malay world under European rule, Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction was altered by nineteenth-century racial categorisation and …
The Crisis of Global Modernity
Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future
Häftad, 2014
491 kr
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In this major new study, Prasenjit Duara expands his influential theoretical framework to present circulatory, transnational histories as an alternative to nationalist history. Duara argues that the present day is defined by the intersection of three global changes: the rise of non-western powers, …
Early Modern China and Northeast Asia
Cross-Border Perspectives
Häftad, 2015
502 kr
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In this revisionist history of early modern China, Evelyn Rawski challenges the notion of Chinese history as a linear narrative of dynasties dominated by the Central Plains and Hans Chinese culture from a unique, peripheral perspective. Rawski argues that China has been shaped by its relations with …
Cities in Motion
Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920-1940
Av Su Lin Lewis
Häftad, 2018
586 kr
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In the 1920s and 1930s, the port-cities of Southeast Asia were staging grounds for diverse groups of ordinary citizens to experiment with modernity, as a rising Japan and American capitalism challenged the predominance of European empires after the First World War. Both migrants and locals played a …
Japan's Imperial Underworlds
Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire
Häftad, 2019
586 kr
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This major new study uses vivid accounts of encounters between Chinese and Japanese people living at the margins of empire to elucidate Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter explores mobility in East Asia through the histories of often ignored …
Japan's Imperial Underworlds
Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire
Inbunden, 2018
1641 kr
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This major new study uses vivid accounts of encounters between Chinese and Japanese people living at the margins of empire to elucidate Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter explores mobility in East Asia through the histories of often ignored …
Miracles and Material Life
Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya
Av Teren Sevea
Inbunden, 2020
1475 kr
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In this ground-breaking new study, Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked manuscripts and personal interaction with …
Banishment and Belonging
Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon
Av Ronit Ricci
Inbunden, 2019
1444 kr
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Lanka, Ceylon, Sarandib: merely three disparate names for a single island? Perhaps. Yet the three diverge in the historical echoes, literary cultures, maps and memories they evoke. Names that have intersected and overlapped - in a treatise, a poem, a document - only to go their own ways. But …
The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia
A Cultural History
Av Marieke Bloembergen, Martijn Eickhoff
Inbunden, 2020
1677 kr
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This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional levels. Starting at Hindu-Buddhist, Chinese, Islamic, colonial, and prehistoric heritage sites in Indonesia, the focus is on people's encounters and the …
Miracles and Material Life
Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya
Av Teren Sevea
Häftad, 2022
569 kr
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In this ground-breaking new study, Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked manuscripts and personal interaction with …
The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia
A Cultural History
Av Marieke Bloembergen, Martijn Eickhoff
Häftad, 2022
468 kr
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This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional levels. Starting at Hindu-Buddhist, Chinese, Islamic, colonial, and prehistoric heritage sites in Indonesia, the focus is on people's encounters and the …
Banishment and Belonging
Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon
Av Ronit Ricci
Häftad, 2019
368 kr
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Lanka, Ceylon, Sarandib: merely three disparate names for a single island? Perhaps. Yet the three diverge in the historical echoes, literary cultures, maps and memories they evoke. Names that have intersected and overlapped - in a treatise, a poem, a document - only to go their own ways. But …
Soju
A Global History
Av Hyunhee Park
Häftad, 2022
557 kr
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Hyunhee Park offers the first global historical study of soju, the distinctive distilled drink of Korea. Searching for soju's origins, Park leads us into the vast, complex world of premodern Eurasia. She demonstrates how the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries wove together …
Beyond the Silk Roads
Inbunden, 2021
1559 kr
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Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative. This ambitious study provides a unique insight into the lives of the mobile traders from …
Soju
A Global History
Av Hyunhee Park
Inbunden, 2021
1475 kr
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Hyunhee Park offers the first global historical study of soju, the distinctive distilled drink of Korea. Searching for soju's origins, Park leads us into the vast, complex world of premodern Eurasia. She demonstrates how the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries wove together …
A Sea of Debt
Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950
Häftad, 2017
653 kr
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In this innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, Bishara examines the transformations of Islamic law and Islamicate commercial practices during the emergence of modern capitalism in the region. In this time of expanding commercial activity, a mélange of Arab, Indian, …
Abraham's Luggage
A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World
Häftad, 2019
639 kr
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From a single merchant's list of baggage begins a history that explores the dynamic world of medieval Indian Ocean exchanges. This fresh and innovative perspective on Jewish merchant activity shows how this list was a component of broader trade connections that developed between the Islamic …
Becoming Arab
Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World
Häftad, 2017
720 kr
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Sumit K. Mandal uncovers the hybridity and transregional connections underlying modern Asian identities. By considering Arabs in the Malay world under European rule, Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction was altered by nineteenth-century racial categorisation and …
