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Gateways Of Asia Port Cities of Asia in the 13th-20th Centuries

By Frank Broeze Copyright 1997
    372 Pages
    by Routledge

    372 Pages
    by Routledge

    372 Pages
    by Routledge
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    First Published in 1997. The dynamic role of port cities has been a major element in the thrust of modern port city literature since. In the process interactions between history and other disciplines, above all geography, economics and town planning resulted in a growing number of collaborative volumes. Indicative of the broad front, multi-disciplinary approach and challenging agenda of this wave of port town and port city studies is the collective and diverse nature of the themes and authorship of each of these works. That very diversity of disciplines, nationalities and perspectives is also one of the main pillars supporting Gateways of Asia. It is not a repetition or summary of the introduction and first chapter of Brides of the Sea, but the publication of this volume, in many ways a sequel to that work, does provide the opportunity of clarifying a few points and elaborating on some issues raised after its publication.

    Introduction - brides of the sea revisited; Aden in pre-Turkish times (1232-1538) - the Arabian entreport of the western Asian seas; Masulipatnam revisited, 1550-1750 - a survey and some speculations; Banten around the turn of the sixteenth century: trade and society in an Indonesian port city; Penang, 1786-1832 - a promise unfulfilled; Bombay and the famine of 1803-1806 - the food supply and public order of a colonial port city; Kuwait before oil - the dynamics and morphology of an Arab port city; Colombo and the re-making of Ceylon: a prototype of colonial Asian port cities; Bangkok in the 19th and 20th centuries - the dynamics and limits of port primacy; Kobe and Niigata - situation and site in the development of two Japanese port cities; Vladivostok - city and ocean in Russia's far east; Alleppey - from a port without a city to a city without a port; Asian ports since 1945 - maritime change and port rivalry; Japan's seaports during the era of high-speed growth, 1960-1975.

    Biography

    Frank Broeze Department of History, University of Western Australia

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