A Moving History of Middle Sumatra, 1600–1870

The history of the early modern Malay world has been told largely in terms of processes of Islamization, the rise and demise of states, European voyages of discovery, trade with China, India and Europe, and colonial conquest. With a few important exceptions, these studies underestimate, if not ignor...

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Published inModern Asian studies Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 1 - 38
Main Author COLOMBIJN, FREEK
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.02.2005
Subjects
Boats
Canyons
Carts
Coasts
Colonial history
Ecology
Economic development
Highlands
History
History of trade
Indonesia
International trade
Islamization
Land transport
Malaysia
Porters
River ports
River transport
Roads
Sea transport
Ships
Social history
Sumatra
Transportation
Sumatra
Indonesia
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Summary:The history of the early modern Malay world has been told largely in terms of processes of Islamization, the rise and demise of states, European voyages of discovery, trade with China, India and Europe, and colonial conquest. With a few important exceptions, these studies underestimate, if not ignore, the role of transportation in the historical transformations of Southeast Asia. Just as Clive Ponting's (1992) well-known A green history of the world rewrites the world's history in ecological terms, this article aims to describe the political and economic history of Middle Sumatra in terms of transportation of goods and people. Hence this is a moving history.
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1469-8099
DOI:10.1017/S0026749X04001374