Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800

by Hall, Kenneth R.; Argo, Charles; Chaffee, John; Gordon, Stewart; Green, Alexandra; Heitzman, James; Lambourn, Elizabeth; Morillo, Stephen; Spaulding, Jay; Swope, Kenneth M.; Wheeler, Charles; Whitmore, John K.

• ISBN13: 9780739128350
• ISBN10: 0739128353
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-28
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

With the closure of the overland Silk Road in the fourteenth century following the collapse of the Mongol empire, the Indian Ocean provided the remaining vital link for wider cultural, political, and societal integrations prior to the Western colonial presence. Collectively, the studies in Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800 explore the history of non-metropolitan urban settings, from the Ottoman Empire and the African coastline at the mouth of the Red Sea in the west to China in the east. This was an age of heightened international commercial exchange that predated the European arrival, which in the Indian Ocean paired Islamic expansionism and political authority, and, alternately, in the case of mainland Southeast Asia, partnered Buddhism with new centralizing monarchies.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Autonomy and Subordination: The Cultural Dynamics of Small Cities	p. 17
Suakin: A Port City of the Early Modern Sudan	p. 39
India from Aden: Khutba and Muslim Urban Networks in Late Thirteenth-Century India	p. 55
At the Intersection of Empire and World Trade: The Chinese Port City of Quanzhou (Zaitun), Eleventh-Fifteenth Centuries	p. 99
Clearing the Fields and Strengthening the Walls: Defending Small Cities in Late Ming China	p. 123
Secondary Capitals of Dai Viet: Shifting Elite Power Bases	p. 155
Coastal Cities in an Age of Transition: Upstream-Downstream Networking and Societal Development in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Maritime Southeast Asia	p. 177
Missionary Buddhism in a Post-Ancient World: Monks, Merchants, and Colonial Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Cochinchina (Vietnam)	p. 205
Religious Networking and Upstream Buddhist Wall Paintings in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Burma	p. 233
The Ottoman Balkan City: The Periphery as Center in Punitive Spectacle	p. 259
A Tale of Three Cities: Burhanpur from 1400 to 1800	p. 285
Secondary Cities and Spatial Templates in South India, 1300-1800	p. 303
Index	p. 335
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