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Astride the historical maritime silk routes linking India to China, as this book develops, East-Southeast Asia can also be viewed as a global region-in-the-making over a long-time. This book situates itself within a new genre of writing on zones between nations, especially prior to the emergence of the modern nation-state.
Southeast Asia --- Asie du Sud-Est --- Commerce --- History --- Economic conditions. --- History. --- Histoire --- Conditions économiques --- Economics -- Southeast Asia. --- Southeast Asia -- Commerce -- History. --- Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions. --- Southeast Asia -- History. --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Local Commerce --- East Asia --- S09/0200 --- S09/0400 --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--General works and before 1840 --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and Asia: general --- Asia, East --- Asia, Eastern --- East (Far East) --- Eastern Asia --- Far East --- Orient --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia --- Economics --- Conditions économiques --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- E-books
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The history of East Timor is related in this book through a chronology, an introductory essay, an expansive bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of East Timor history from the earliest times to the present.
Timor-Leste --- Democratic Republic of East Timor --- Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste --- East Timor --- Higashi Timōru --- Itä-Timor --- Östra Timor --- Östtimor --- RDTL --- Repoṕlika Democrátika Timor Lorosa'e --- República Democrática de Timor-Leste --- Repúblika Demokrátika Timor Lorosa'e --- Repúplica Democrática de Timor-Leste --- Timor Lorosa'e --- Timor Wschodni --- Тимор-Лесте --- 東ティモール --- Timor Timur (Indonesia) --- History --- Constitutional Government of East Timor --- Governo Constitucional de Timor-Leste --- Governu Konstitutionál da Timor-Leste
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This book offers the first detailed English-language examination of the Great Vietnamese Famine of 1945, which left at least a million dead, and links it persuasively to the largely unexpected Viet Minh seizure of power only months later. Drawing on extensive research in French archives, Geoffrey C. Gunn offers an important new interpretation of Japanese-Vichy French wartime economic exploitation of Vietnam's agricultural potential. Gunn asks whether the famine signaled a loss of the French administration's "mandate of heaven," or whether the overall dire human condition was the de
Famines --- Famine --- Food supply --- Starvation --- Vietnam --- Betʻŭnam --- Biet Nam --- Bietnam --- Biyetnan --- Chính phủ nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- Fītnām --- Fīyatnām --- Fiyitnām --- I︠U︡zhnyĭ Vʹetnam --- National Republic of Vietnam --- Nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- Petʻŭnam --- Republica Socialista de Vietnam --- Rèpublica socialista du Viêt Nam --- République socialiste du Vietnam --- RSV --- RSVN --- S.R.V. --- Satsyi︠a︡listychnai︠a︡ Rėspublika V'etnam --- Socialist Republic of Viet Nam --- Socialist Republic of Vietnam --- Sosialistiese Republiek Viëtnam --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheska republika Vietnam --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Vʹetnam --- SRV --- SRVN --- Vʹet-Nam --- Vʹetnam --- Viet-Nam --- Vijetnam --- Vītnām --- Vīyitnām --- Vjetnamio --- Vyetnam --- Vyetnam Sosialist Respublikası --- Wietnam --- Yüeh-nan --- Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка В'етнам --- Социалистическа република Виетнам --- Виетнам --- В'етнам --- فيتنام --- Vietnam (Democratic Republic) --- Vietnam (Republic) --- History --- Economic conditions --- Colonization.
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It has intrigued many that, unlike Hong Kong, Macau avoided direct Japanese wartime occupation despite being caught up in the vortex of the wider global conflict. Geoffrey Gunn and an international group of contributors come together to investigate how Macau escaped the fate of direct Japanese invasion and occupation. Exploring the broader diplomatic and strategic issues during that era, this volume reveals that the occupation of Macau was not in Japan's best interest because the Portuguese administration in Macau posed no threat to Japan's control over the China coast and acted as a listening post to monitor Allied activities. Drawing upon archival materials in English, Japanese, Portuguese, and other languages, the contributors explain how, under the high duress of Japanese military agencies, the Portuguese administration coped with a tripling of its population and issues such as currency, food supply, disease, and survival. This volume presents contrasting views on wartime governance and shows how the different levels of Macau society survived the war.
World War, 1939-1945 --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Refugees --- Food supply --- History. --- Campaigns --- Macau (China : Special Administrative Region) --- Aomen (China : Special Administrative Region) --- Macao (China : Special Administrative Region) --- Macau Special Administrative Region (China) --- Aomen Tebie Xingzhengqu (China) --- Região Administrativa Especial de Macau (China) --- 澳门特别行政区 (China) --- Macau --- History --- S28/0500 --- J3385 --- Macao--History --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- Shōwa period -- World War II -- invasion of Asia (1931-1945) --- Japanese occupation, 1940-1945.
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In World Trade Systems of the East and West , Geoffrey C. Gunn profiles Nagasaki's historic role in mediating the Japanese bullion trade, especially silver exchanged against Chinese and Vietnamese silk. Founded in 1571 as the terminal port of the Portuguese Macau ships, Nagasaki served as Japan's window to the world over long time and with the East-West trade carried on by the Dutch and, with even more vigor, by the Chinese junk trade. While the final expulsion of the Portuguese in 1646 characteristically defines the “closed” period of early modern Japanese history, the real trade seclusion policy, this work argues, only came into place one century later when the Shogunate firmly grasped the true impact of the bullion trade upon the national economy.
Precious metals --- Bullion --- Noble metals --- Metals --- Mines and mineral resources --- History. --- Nagasaki-shi (Japan) --- Asia --- Nagasaki (Japan) --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Commerce --- History --- E-books
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'Imagined Geographies' is a pioneering work in the study of history and geography of the pre-1800 world. In this book, Gunn argues that different regions astride the maritime silk roads were not only interconnected but can also be construed as 'imagined geographies.' Taking a grand civilizational perspective, five such geographic imaginaries are examined across respective chapters, namely Indian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and European including an imagined Great South Land. Drawing upon an array of marine and other archaeological examples, the author offers compelling evidence of the intertwining of political, cultural, and economic regions across the sea silk roads from ancient times until the seventeenth century.
Trade routes --- History. --- Asia --- Commerce
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