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A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes—an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan—grew dramatically, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a massive circulation of people, commodities, religion, culture, technology, and ideas. In this book, Eric Tagliacozzo chronicles how the seas and oceans of Asia have shaped the history of the largest continent for the past half millennium, leaving an indelible mark on the modern world in the process.Paying special attention to migration, trade, the environment, and cities, In Asian Waters examines the long history of contact between China and East Africa; the spread of Hinduism and Buddhism across the Bay of Bengal; and the intertwined histories of Islam and Christianity in the Philippines. The book illustrates how India became central to the spice trade; how the Indian Ocean became a "British lake" between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries; and how lighthouses and sea mapping played important roles in imperialism. The volume ends by asking what may happen if China comes to rule the waves of Asia, as Britain once did.A novel account showing how Asian history can be seen as a whole when seen from the water, In Asian Waters presents a voyage into a past that is still alive in the present

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- 1. Commercial Sociability: The Jean-Jacques Rousseau Problem -- 2. Commercial Sociability: The Adam Smith Problem -- 3. Histories of Government: Which Comes First, Judges or the Law? -- 4. Histories of Government: Republics, Inequality, and Revolution? -- 5. Political Economy: Markets, House holds, and Invisible Hands -- 6. Political Economy: Nationalism, Emulation, and War -- Index.

Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, currency runners, and human traffickers who pierced such newly drawn borders with growing success.The book presents a history of the evolution of this 3000-km frontier, and then inquires into the smuggling of contraband: who smuggled and why, what routes were favored, and how effectively the British and Dutch were able to enforce their economic, moral, and political will. Examining the history of states and smugglers playing off one another within a hidden but powerful economy of forbidden cargoes, the book also offers new insights into the modern political economies of Southeast Asia

Cover -- Contents -- A Note on Orthography and Usage -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Part One: Creating the Frontier: Border Formation and the State -- Section I: Building the Frontier: Drawing Lines in Physical Space -- 2 Mapping the Frontier -- 3 Enforcing the Frontier -- 4 Strengthening the Frontier -- Section II: Imagining the Frontier: State Visions of Danger Along the Border -- 5 The Specter of Violence -- 6 "Foreign Asians" on the Frontier -- 7 The Indigenous Threat -- Part Two: Crossing the Frontier: Smuggling, Pro.t, and Resistance -- Section III: Secret Trades, Porous Borders -- 8 The Smuggling of Narcotics -- 9 Counterfeiters Across the Frontier -- 10 Illicit Human Cargoes -- Section IV: The Illegal Weapons Trade Across the Anglo/Dutch Frontier -- 11 Munitions and Borders: Arms in Context -- 12 Praxis and Evasion: Arms in Motion -- Section V: A Frontier Story: The Sorrows of Golam Merican -- 13 Contraband and the Junk Kim Ban An -- 14 Worlds of Illegality, 1873-99 -- 15 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

For centuries, India searched for ways to escape the deadly cycle of too little water and too much. Pollution and climate change threaten to undo the progress it has made.