Journal ArticleJournal of Asian Studies · November 1, 2017
This essay proposes that the study of Asia, thought of as an Inter-Asian space, can provide concepts that shed light on the social shapes of societies that are mobile, spatially expansive, and interactive with one other. Inter-Asia, an old world crisscross ...
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Journal ArticleLaw and History Review · September 16, 2014
The articles in this special issue of Law and History Review advance Indian Ocean studies and legal history by employing innovative mobile methods and concepts. In the past few decades, the Indian Ocean has become established as a frame for research and an ...
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Journal ArticleMiddle East Report · January 1, 2014
China and Africa grosso modo are often seen as standing at two ends of the spectrum of developing countries, the former having acquired enormous industrial capacity in short order, and the latter not. In the nineteenth century Africa presented few states s ...
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Journal ArticleIndonesia and the Malay World · July 1, 2013
Through reading the Sejarah Melayu, this article suggests that foreigners are fundamental to the constitution of Malay sovereignty. Malay polities, located at the crossroads of international trade, thrived on commerce with foreign merchants. Power and weal ...
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