Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1350-1800 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

xxvi, 301 pages ; 24 cm. Contents: Status and security in early Southeast Asian state systems / Nicholas Tarling The "Alexandrowicz thesis" re-visited : Hugo Grotius, divisible sovereignty, and private avengers within the Indian Ocean world system / Eric Wilson Phrakhlang ministry of Ayutthaya : Siamese instrument to cope with the early modern world / Bhawan Ruangsilp Applying the seas perspective in the study of eastern Indonesia in the early modern period / Leonard Y. Andaya Borneo in the early modern period, ca. late fourteenth to ca. late eighteenth centuries / Ooi Keat Gin Another past : early modern Vietnamese silk production and export in global perspective / Hoang Anh Tuan Van Don : an international sea port of Dai Viet / Nguyen Van Kim Batu Sawar Johor : a regional centre of trade in the early seventeenth century / Peter Borschberg Urban growth and municipal development of early Penang / Nordin Hussin Revisiting "kingship" in seventeenth century Aceh : from ira et malevolentia to pax et custodia / Sher Banu A.L. Khan Catching and selling elephants : trade and tradition in seventeenth century Siam / Dhiravat na Pombejra Cham-Viet Relations in Binh Thuan and Ninh Thuan under Nguyen rule from the late seventeenth century to mid-eighteenth century / Danny Wong Tze Ken The glocalization of Christianity in early modern Southeast Asia / Barbara Watson Andaya The passing of rice spirits : cosmology, technology, and gender relations in the colonial Philippines / Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr.…