Asia Inside Out - Connected Places

Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have linked regions of the world¿s largest continent. Connected Places, the second of three volumes, highlights the flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political boundaries and illustrates the confluence of factors in the historical construction of place and space.

About the author

Eric Tagliacozzo is the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University and the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865–1915, winner of the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies.Helen F. Siu is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and the author of Tracing China: A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey. She established the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong to promote interregional research and was its honorary director for ten years.Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History at Yale University and the author of China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (HUP), awarded the Joseph Levenson Book Prize from the Association of Asian Studies.

Summary

Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have linked regions of the world’s largest continent. Connected Places, the second of three volumes, highlights the flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political boundaries and illustrates the confluence of factors in the historical construction of place and space.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Tagliacozzo, Eric Siu Tagliacozzo
• Assisted by: Peter C Perdue (Editor), Peter C. Perdue (Editor), Perdue Peter C. (Editor), Helen F Siu (Editor), Helen F. Siu (Editor), Siu Helen F. (Editor), Eric Tagliacozzo (Editor), Tagliacozzo Eric (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2015
• EAN: 9780674967687
• ISBN: 978-0-674-96768-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Asia, HISTORY / Asia / General, Refugees, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Politics & government, Politics and government, Asian History