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Author:   Masashi Haneda ,  Mihoko Oka
Publisher:   Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press
Imprint:   Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9781925608939

ISBN 10:   192560893
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   30 April 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Figures Tables Photographs Editors’ Biographies Contributors to the English version Acknowledgements Preface to the English Edition Prologue Part 1: The Open Sea, from 1250 to 1350 1.1 General Overview 1.2 The Background to Maritime Interaction and Its Agents 1.3 Increased Openness: Maritime Merchants Expand Maritime Interactions 1.4 What Conflicts with the Mongols Wrought: Isolationism Within Openness 1.5 Traffic in Goods and Technology: Expanding the Field of Interaction and Mutual Exchange Part 2: Competing for the Sea, from 1500 to 1600 2.1 General Overview 2.2 The Age of the Wokou: Transformations in the Structure of East Asian Trade 2.3 The Age of Maritime Merchants 2.4 Development of Diverse and Hybrid Cultures Part 3: The Compartmentalized Sea, from 1700 to 1800 3.1 General Overview 3.2 Maritime Merchants and “Compartmentalization” Among Early Modern States 3.3 Compression and Concentration of Interactions and Residences 3.4 Trans-Oceanic Movements of Goods and Information Bibliography Historical Geography Index Name Index Subject Index

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Masashi Haneda is Professor of History at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia and Executive Vice President of the University of Tokyo. Formerly, he served as Director of the Institute of Oriental Culture (2009) and as Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (2010–2012) at the University of Tokyo. His main research topics include global/world history, history of the East Asian maritime world, Islamic urban studies, Iranian history of the 16th–18th centuries and studies of European travel accounts on Persia. He has published a number of academic works in Japanese as well as in English, French and Chinese. He has received many prestigious awards, including the Mainichi Award for Publishing Culture (2002), the Asia-Pacific Award (2006), the Farabi International Award, Iran (2010), the Silver Award of Asia-Pacific Publishers (2010) and the Shiju Hosho (medal of honor with purple ribbon; 2017).

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