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The Asian continent has a maritime tradition spanning as far back as the third millennium BC, and its port cities have for centuries had a social and cultural character radically different from those on the shores of the Atlantic.
A fresh and innovative perspective on Asian history, economic development, and urbanization, Gateways of Asia focuses on the vital role played by ports and port cities across the centuries. The authors explore these cities as links to each other and to the outside world, as meeting grounds of indigenous and overseas cultures and as the stageposts for struggles of expansion, imperialism, and colonialism.
A range of multidisciplinary studies discuss cities including Bangkok, Kobe, Kuwait, Bombay, Banten, and Vladivostok from the thirteenth century to the present. Reflecting on both the influences of modernization and Westernization and the impact of traditional, inland cultures on the development of these cities, Gateways of Asia is a significant chapter in the understanding of multicultural interaction over history, from the vantage point of the contemporary global village.
FRANK BROEZE is Associate Professor of History at the University of Western Australia.
Introduction:
Brides of the Sea Revisited.
- Aden in Pre-Turkish Times (1232-1538):
The Arabian Entreport of the Western Asian Seas.
- Masulipatnam Revisited, 1550-1750:
A Survey and Some Speculations.
- Banten Around the Turn of the Sixteenth Century:
Trade and Society in an Indonesian Port City.
- Penang 1786-1832:
A Promise Unfulfilled.
- Bombay and the Famine of 1803-1806:
The Food Supply and Public Order of a Colonial Port City.
- Kuwait Before Oil:
The Dynamics and Morphology of an Arab Port City.
- Colombo and the Re-making of Ceylon:
A Prototype of Colonial Asian Port Cities.
- Bangkok in the 19th and 20th Centuries:
The Dynamics and Limits of Port Primacy.
- Kobe and Niigata:
Situation and Site in the Development of Two Japanese Port Cities.
- Vladivostok:
'City and Ocean' in Russia's Far East.
- Alleppey:
From a Port Without a City to a City Without a Port.
- Asean Ports Since 1945:
Maritime Change and Port Rivalry.
- Japan's Seaports During the Era of High-Speed Growth, 1960-1975.
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