Port Cities: Multicultural Emporiums of Asia 1500-1900

by Peter Lee, Leonard Y. Andaya, Barbara Watson Andaya

Port cities are liminal spaces. They are in-between forms of human settlement that occupy the threshold 'twixt land and sea', between polities and routes. They have existed for more than a millennium as peripheral places at the edges of the continental land masses and their civilisations. And yet it is through these peripheral dots on the map that the course of world history and culture has changed.

218 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016

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