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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume I
- Part I Rethinking the Pacific
- Part II Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean
- Part III Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific
- Part IV The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
- Part V The Evolution of Pacific Communities
- Part VI Europe’s Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
- 28 Iberian Conceptions of the Pacific
- 29 Naval Rivalry in the Western Pacific: Portugal, England, Holland, and Koxinga, 1600–1720
- 30 The Resurgence of Chinese Mercantile Power in Maritime East Asia, 1500–1700
- 31 The Enduring Sea Cultures of Southeast Asia, Seventh–Seventeenth Centuries
- References to Volume I
- Index
31 - The Enduring Sea Cultures of Southeast Asia, Seventh–Seventeenth Centuries
from Part VI - Europe’s Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2022
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume I
- Part I Rethinking the Pacific
- Part II Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean
- Part III Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific
- Part IV The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
- Part V The Evolution of Pacific Communities
- Part VI Europe’s Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
- 28 Iberian Conceptions of the Pacific
- 29 Naval Rivalry in the Western Pacific: Portugal, England, Holland, and Koxinga, 1600–1720
- 30 The Resurgence of Chinese Mercantile Power in Maritime East Asia, 1500–1700
- 31 The Enduring Sea Cultures of Southeast Asia, Seventh–Seventeenth Centuries
- References to Volume I
- Index
Summary
The waters of the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and the South China Sea all flow through Southeast Asia, whose vast archipelagoes and extensive mainland coastlines have nurtured sea-focused cultures for millennia. Yet political and ideological legacies have led some historians of the maritime world to misrepresent people from beyond the region as the principal drivers of change, even when they were not, rather than come to grips with the enduring sea cultures at the heart of regional dynamics. This chapter highlights important recent research on the prehistory of Southeast Asian maritime networks and reviews prominent examples of polities with sea-focused cultures in the early period. It then delves into the Southeast Asian seascape that early modern European powers eventually engaged, before colonial transformations limited the political and military roles of maritime groups in regional polities (Figure 31.1).
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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean , pp. 698 - 717Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023