Act 5. Commercial Militarism and Coastal Environments
Theme: Europeans acquire direct territorial control over mobile Asian assets in port city environments that become dynamic features of Asian territory connecting interior hinterlands with seaborne globalization anchored in port cities around the world.
Video21 with slides: “Port City Enclaves, Networks, and Imperial Properties.” (Slides only)
VIEWING: “Sultanates of the Spice Route“.
Reading:
Arturo Giraldez, The Age of Trade : The Manila Galleons and the Dawn of the Global Economy, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015 (Ebook) pp.9-12, 142-59.
“Columbus and the Islamic World,” Derek Davison, Foreign Exchanges.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, “Empires in their Global Context, c.1500-c.1800,” Chapter 6 (19pp) in The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000, edited by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Erik R Seeman.
A.C.S. Peacock, “The Ottoman Empire and the Indian Ocean,” (10pp)
Peter Perdue, “The Rise and Fall of the Canton Trade System -1: China in the World (1790s-1860s)” (5pp)
K.Mukund, “Indian Textile Industry in the 17th and 18th Century.” Economic and Political Weekly, 27, 38, 1992, 2057-65.
David Ludden, “Patterns of Mobility around the Bay of Bengal,” Draft of forthcoming chapter in in the Cambridge History of Global Migration (12pp)
Reference:
Flynn, Dennis O., and Arturo Giraldez. “Arbitrage, China, and World Trade in the Early Modern Period.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 38, 4, 1995, 429–448. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3632434.
Richard Von Glahn, “Comment on ‘Arbitrage, China, and World Trade in the Early Modern Period.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 39, 3, 1996, 365–367. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3632650. Accessed 1 Apr. 2020.
Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giraldez, Dennis O.Flynn and Arturo Giráldez, “Born with a ‘Silver Spoon’: The Origin of World Trade in 1571,” Journal of World History, 6, 2, 1995, 201-221.
Michael Charney, “Warfare in Pre-Modern Southeast Asia.” (OREAH).
Rudranghsu Mukherjee, “What Made The East India Company so Successful?” The India Forum, (3pp)
AMERASIA: An inquiry into early-modern imaginative geography
English East India Company Digital Archive
Final paper drafts (optional).
Individual Weeks in full syllabus: Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14