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Informationen zum Autor Kenneth R. Hall is professor of History at Ball State University. His most recent books are A History of Early Southeast Asia: Maritime Trade and Cultural Development; New Perspectives in the History and Historiography of Southeast Asia, Continuing Explorations (co-editor with Michael Aung-Thwin, 2011); Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800 (editor, 2008); and Structural Change in Early South India (editor, 2001/2005). Klappentext These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman Middle East, and South, Southeast, and East Asia. Therein, primary and secondary cities served as functional societal agents that were viable and potentially powerful alternatives to the diversity of kinship-based local or regional networks, the societal delegated spaces in which local and external agencies met and interacted in a wide variety of political, economic, spiritual, and military forms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Cities, Networks, and Cultures of Knowledge: A Global Overview Part 3 Part I: Urban Networking in the Early Indian Ocean Realm Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Port-City Networking in the Indian Ocean Commercial System Represented in Geographic and Cartographic Works in China and the Islamic West from c. 750 to 1500 Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Secondary Ports and Their Cults: Religious Innovation in the Port System of Greater Quangzhou (Southern China) in the 10th-12th Centuries Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Buddhist Conversions and the Creation of Urban Hierarchies in Vietnam and Cambodia, c. 1000-1200 Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Why Did Le Van Thinh Revolt? Buddhism and Political Integration in Early 12th Century Dai Viet Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Khuba and Muslim Networks in the Indian Ocean (Part II) - Timurid and Ottoman Engagements Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Urbanization and Ironworking in the Nubian State Tradition Part 10 Part II: Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Non-Western World, c. 1500-1900 Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Dengzhou and the Bohai Gulf in Seventeenth-Century Northeast Asia Chapter 12 Chapter 9: The Origins of the Post Designation System in the Qing Field Administration Network Chapter 13 Chapter 10: The Collapse of the English Trade Entrepôts at Pulo Condore and Banjarmasin and the Legacy of Early British East India Company Urban Network-Building in Southeast Asia Chapter 14 Chapter 11: Taverns and Their Influence on the Suburban Culture of Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico City Chapter 15 Chapter 12: Networks, Railroads, and Small Cities in the Ottoman Balkans...
