Empire of the seas : thinking about Asia / Shiraishi Takashi ; translated by the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA).

By:

Shiraishi, Takashi, 1950- [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2021Edition: First English editionDescription: 187 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9784866581262
4866581263

Uniform titles:

Umi no teikoku. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

950 23

LOC classification:

DS515 .S5513 2021

Contents:

Raffle's dream -- The Bugis Sea -- Toddling Leviathans -- The formation of plural societies -- The logic of the civilizing project -- The new imperial order -- Nation-state building from above -- Thinking about Asia -- Afterword -- Addendum: 2020.

Summary: "Winner of the 2000 Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo Prize for academic writing on politics, economics, and history, this book locates the modern history of Sotheast Asia within the framework of a 'maritime Asia' which emerged from trade and commerce, state formation, imperial/global hegemonic ambitions, and popular resistance."-- Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	University Library Special Collections	Circulating	DS515 .S5513 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3UPML00038846

"Originally published in 2000 under the Japanese title Umi no teikoku : Ajia o dō kangaeru ka by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc."--Title page verso.

Translation of: Umi no teikoku : Ajia o dō kangaeru ka.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-175) and index.

"Winner of the 2000 Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo Prize for academic writing on politics, economics, and history, this book locates the modern history of Sotheast Asia within the framework of a 'maritime Asia' which emerged from trade and commerce, state formation, imperial/global hegemonic ambitions, and popular resistance."-- Back cover.

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