Water Frontier Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880 |
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| Editor:
| Cooke, Nola
Tana, Li |
| Contribution by:
| Byung-wook, Choi
Chin, James Cong
Reid, Anthony
Rungswasdisab, Puangthong
Sakurai, Yumio
Trocki, Carl A.
Wade, Geoff |
| Series title: | World Social Change Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7425-3083-6 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2004 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThis 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.