Book contents
- A Maritime Vietnam
- Dedication
- A Maritime Vietnam
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Maritime Formations
- 2 Aromatics, Buddhism, and the Making of a South Seas Emporium
- 3 ‘THE Harbour and THE Path of All Countries’
- 4 Maritime Resurgence and the Rise of Dai Viet
- 5 Winds of Trade from the Middle East
- 6 Muslim Trade and the Conquest of the Coast
- 7 Silks and Society
- 8 Seventeenth-Century Dang Trong
- 9 The Rise and Fall of the Eighteenth-Century Water Frontier
- 10 Ships and the Problem of Political Integration
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - Ships and the Problem of Political Integration
Transporting Rice in the New Empire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2024
Book contents
- A Maritime Vietnam
- Dedication
- A Maritime Vietnam
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Maritime Formations
- 2 Aromatics, Buddhism, and the Making of a South Seas Emporium
- 3 ‘THE Harbour and THE Path of All Countries’
- 4 Maritime Resurgence and the Rise of Dai Viet
- 5 Winds of Trade from the Middle East
- 6 Muslim Trade and the Conquest of the Coast
- 7 Silks and Society
- 8 Seventeenth-Century Dang Trong
- 9 The Rise and Fall of the Eighteenth-Century Water Frontier
- 10 Ships and the Problem of Political Integration
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter considers why among the three large mainland Southeast Asian countries – Burma, Siam, and Vietnam – that Vietnam was not half as integrated as the other two. Did its lacking a dominant, integrative river system like that of the Irrawaddy play a role? Yet Vietnam has an advantage that the other two did not enjoy, a 3,260-kilometre-long coastline. Why did not this feature failed to integrate the nineteenth-century Dai Nam? The Nguyen imperial rice shipping seemed to aim at such a role, but in the end, it improvised the north, the main source for sustaining the Nguyen bureaucratic machine and the capital area Hue.
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- A Maritime VietnamFrom Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century, pp. 285 - 308Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024