Water Frontier - Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880

Informationen zum Autor Nola Cooke is research fellow in the Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. Li Tana is senior fellow in the Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. Klappentext This innovative book rethinks the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century history of coastal and riverine southwest Indochina, the 'water frontier' of the title. It repositions old state-centered histories to reveal the region as a single, multiethnic economic zone knit together by the itineraries of junk traders and by the activities of many southern Chinese, settlers, sojourners, and merchants, whose local significance it explores. In so doing, it pioneers a new, nationally-neutral way of perceiving this dynamic region.

Product details

• Authors: Nola Tana Cooke
• Assisted by: Nola Cooke (Editor), Tana Li (Editor), Li Tana (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2004
• EAN: 9780742530829
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-3082-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: World Social Change; World Social Change
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries