Tonio Andrade (Editor) Tonio Andrade is professor of history at Emory University.Xing Hang (Editor) Xing Hang is assistant professor of history at Brandeis University.
[Tonio Andrade] and coeditor Xing Hang bring together an impressive
array of international scholars representing different generations,
from pioneers who have been leading the field since the 1970s to
emerging scholars. . . . Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai renders a
great service not only to historians of East Asia but to students
of maritime history in general, providing insights that are highly
relevant to the ongoing maritime and territorial disputes in the
South China Sea.-- "Monumenta Nipponica"
This volume is not only a work on piracy and economy, as its title
suggests. In fact it discusses trade, state formation, local
politics, diplomacy, cosmology, legal cases, and cultural exchanges
in the early modern era, and shifting historical images in recent
decades. . . . My claim that East Asia was perhaps not unique,
however, does not detract from the value of this volume. It rather
indicates that similar dynamics were happening at both ends of the
Eurasian continent. This may indicate that landbased agricultural
states were challenged by trade-oriented states in Southwest Europe
and Northeast Asia simultaneously. In this way this volume brings
to light a unique development in global history. Those interested
in this issue should read this excellent book.-- "Journal of
Chinese Overseas"
This is a fascinating book of essays that evoke a magical maritime
region of ports, nodes, and chokepoints inhabited by sea lords and
absentee rulers and lubricated by silver and other commodities. . .
. Now that we have an important corpus of scholarship on piracy and
its linkages with law, sovereignty, and markets, it would be useful
to integrate the East Asian experience to push the frontiers of
research on the politics of predation, especially in the centuries
of transition.-- "H-Net Reviews"
The realms of maritime East Asia, although abstract to other
maritime realms globally, has a transnational similarity that makes
Sea Rovers a valid and useful source for comparative studies on
maritime history and the global interconnectivity of waterways. . .
. Andrade is no stranger to writing Taiwanese history, but what
sets this apart is that it frames the island globally in a
pre-modern period.-- "International Journal of Maritime History"
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