Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600–c.1906

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Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Access options Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. Moreover, the usual themes in the historical grand narrative of maritime Southeast Asia—state formation, the rise and fall of regimes, the transformative role of European trade—seemed too abstract and dismissive of the local agency. Pangreh Pradja: Java's indigenous administrative corps and its role in the last decades of Dutch colonial rule (PDF) (Ph.

Please list any fees and grants from, employment by, consultancy for, shared ownership in or any close relationship with, at any time over the preceding 36 months, any organisation whose interests may be affected by the publication of the response.But much smaller, yet often complex societies were more typical of the region: apparently isolated beachfront settlements, raiders’ strongholds and coastal rajadoms.

To save this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. These were, most notably, the seafaring Sultanates of the Southern Philippines, the riverine polities of East Borneo, the spice-trading kingdoms of Ternate and Tidore, powerful Makassar on Southwest Sulawesi (the Celebes) and Bali’s Indian-influenced realms. Please note that some countries may charge the recipient duties on the 'import' of parcels from time-to-time. Indeed, some of the world’s most prized commodities once came from territories which were either “stateless” or under the very tenuous control of loosely structured polities.Seaways and Gatekeepersforces us to reconsider how much frontiers shape the history of state formation and nation-building in the region.

In using your information, NUS Press will follow our privacy policies, under the provisions of Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act. This eBook can be accessed through the free Dymocks eReader app, ( iOS, Android, Windows), or downloaded via Adobe Digital Editions (and other . From Mindanao to Timor, Bali to New Guinea, Sutherland finds new linkages and discovers fresh fractures down the centuries. Heather Amanda Sutherland (born 1943) is an Australian historian and former professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

It has resonance for a wide readership and could easily sit as a core textbook for studies on South East Asia, providing as it does a useful source of comparison on European encounters with non-European Others. The following is an excerpt from Chapter Three of Malaysiakini and the Power of Independent Media in Malaysia, by Janet Steele, launched September 12, 2023. The book is distributed Open Access under a Creative Commons license, and sold in print editions in Asia. This was a water-centred world, as broad as the entire Mediterranean, yet it harboured a mere handful of states.

What will the upcoming 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) bring, and what will the next decade of CPC rule look like?The Southeast Asian and Caribbean Images of the Royal Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) now held in the Leiden University Library. The first report available details an important excavation of 14th century material at the Singapore Cricket Club. While there were a handful of excellent pioneering studies of individual regions, most histories barely mention the places considered here. It will also appeal to those working on wider themes such as global history, state formation, the evolution of markets and anthropology.