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Author Boomgaard, P., 1946-2017.

Title Linking Destinies : Trade, Towns and Kin in Asian History.

Publication Info. Leiden : BRILL, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages).
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Series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
Contents LINKING DESTINIES; LINKING DESTINIES; Copyright; Contents; Preface; PETER BOOMGAARD and HENK SCHULTE NORDHOLT; Connecting people, places andcommodities; PETER BOOMGAARD; Early globalization Cowries as currency, 600 BCE-1900; WILLEM VAN SCHENDEL; The Asianization of indigo Rapid change in a global trade around 1800; OSCAR SALEMINK; Trading goods, prestige and power A revisionist history of Lowlander-Highlander relations in Vietnam; I GDE PARIMARTHA; Contextualizing trade in East Nusa Tenggara, 1600-1800; GERRIT KNAAP.
Maritime trade in small-town Java around 1775 The cases of Tegal and PekalonganALEXANDER CLAVER; Struggling for justice Chinese commerce and Dutch law in the Netherlands Indies, 1800-1942; REMCO RABEN; Cities and the slave trade in early-modern Southeast Asia; PETER KEPPY; Keroncong, concours and crooners Home grown entertainment in early twentieth-century Batavia; FREEK COLOMBIJN; Kampong improvement in colonial Indonesia A contest on paper and in the field; ELSBETH LOCHER-SCHOLTEN; Family is where one starts from Exploring family history in the historiography of colonial Indonesia.
KWEE HUI KIANCultural strategies, economic dominance The lineage of Tan Bing in nineteenth-century Semarang, Java; SONG PING; Traditional lineages in transnational spaces; WU XIAO AN; Family divided, property disputed The collapse of a wealthy Nanyang Chinese patriarch; About the authors; DICK KOOIMAN; Short biography of Heather Sutherland; Inge M. Tromp; Bibliography of Heather Sutherland.
Summary Trade flows, cities and kinship relations can all be seen as elements of complex networks. In this collection of essays, all of which deal with Asia, we argue that there are good reasons to envisage them as various dimensions of the same networks.
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Subject Commerce -- Social aspects -- Asia -- History.
Commerce -- Social aspects.
Asia.
History.
Commerce.
Cities and towns -- Asia -- History.
Cities and towns.
Families -- Asia -- History.
Families.
Asia -- Commerce -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Kooiman, D.
Nordholt, H. G. C. Schulte.
Other Form: Print version: Boomgaard, P. Linking Destinies : Trade, Towns and Kin in Asian History. Leiden : BRILL, ©2008 9789067183208
ISBN 9789004253995 (electronic book)
9004253998 (electronic book)