Books in the Asian Connections series

A single, unique document - a list of one merchant's baggage - is the starting point used to bring to life the twelfth-century Indian Ocean. Drawing connections between material culture, foodstuffs and the construction of identity, Lambourn examines notions of home and mobility at a key moment in world history.

Early Modern China and Northeast Asia offers a revisionist history of China from a peripheral perspective. It surveys wars and regime changes that accompanied China's integration into the world economy during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and places Sino-Korean and Sino-Japanese relations within the context of northeast Asian geopolitics.

Prasenjit Duara explores the idea that the process of modernisation has resulted in an overreach in our conquest of nature, leading to a crisis of sustainability. Drawing on historical sociology and circulatory histories, and through a rich engagement with transcendent Asian traditions, Duara seeks answers to the challenges accompanying global modernity.

A social history of cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia's port cities in the interwar era, including Penang, Rangoon and Bangkok. Su Lin Lewis challenges colonial and nationalist narratives by focusing on the connected experiences of urbanism and modernity by multi-ethnic communities across Asia and in Asian intellectual enclaves in Europe.

Bishara charts the emergence of a trans-oceanic contractual culture, the actors that assembled it, and the legal institutions that shaped it. Analyzing the Western Indian Ocean over an extended period of time, this exceptional volume draws together the regional histories of commerce, law and empire.

For all readers seeking a fresh perspective on how Asians negotiated racial categorisation and control under European colonial rule. Asians - Arabs in this instance - did not acquiesce but drew on a history of integration in the Malay world, connections to the Ottoman Empire, and modern organisations and schools.

Vivid accounts of human experience at the margins of empire shed new light on Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This study centers on categories of people not usually considered in the context of East Asian mobility of the period, including trafficked children, peddlers, 'abducted' women and a female pirate.

This is a study of exile and diaspora - and their multiple manifestations across religions, language worlds, and time - as they relate to the island known as Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon. Utilising a rich array of sources, including Malay manuscripts and Javanese chronicles, Ricci explores entwined histories and imaginings of displacement.

This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, through the lens of colonial and post-colonial Indonesia. It focuses on the mobility of heritage as a multi-sited phenomenon that engages with, and goes beyond, the interests of states.

Through a close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked Malay Islamic manuscripts, Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) across the Indian Ocean world and on the frontier of the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth century.