Water Frontier
Download or Read eBook Water Frontier PDF written by Nola Cooke and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Nola Cooke |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN-10 | : 0742530833 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780742530836 |
Rating | : 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Water Frontier by : Nola Cooke
Book excerpt: This innovative book rethinks the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century history of coastal and riverine southwest Indochina, the 'water frontier' of the title. It repositions old state-centered histories to reveal the region as a single, multiethnic economic zone knit together by the itineraries of junk traders and by the activities of many southern Chinese, settlers, sojourners, and merchants, whose local significance it explores. In so doing, it pioneers a new, nationally-neutral way of perceiving this dynamic region.