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On the Eighteenth Century as a Category of Asian History
Van Leur in Retrospect
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On the Eighteenth Century as a Category of Asian History
Van Leur in Retrospect
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The starting point of this volume is the scathing attack, far-reaching in its consequences, launched in 1942 by J.C. van Leur on the views then current on the character and significance of the 18th century as a category in Asian history. His denial of European pre-eminence in Asian waters represented a direct attack on colonial historiography. The essays here derive from an international conference held 50 years later, to assess the impact of van Leur's work. In part historiographic, in part drawing on new research, they aim to delimit the boundaries of European-Asian interaction, and to provide case studies of what this period actually meant for the history of South and East Aia.
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Index
Aceh, 59, 60–1, 62, 63, 67, 68, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 245, 256, 266, 267, 278, 283
Afghans, 225, 267
Africa, 228, 241, 291, 292, 299
agents, 60, 73, 74, 148–9, 156, 180, 220, 254, 266, 276
Agra, 218, 221, 225, 298
agriculture, 86–97, 101, 103, 134, 135, 139, 142–4, 157, 186, 199–202, 206, 208, 209, 220, 223, 224–5, 238, 240, 299–300, 301
Ahmadabad, 221, 299
Akbar, 219
Alam, Muzaffar, 220, 233, 234, 238, 286, 301
Alam, Raja of Siak, 66, 67, 68
Ala-ud-din Johan Syah, Sultan of Aceh, 61
Albinus, W. B., 67, 70
Ali Miya, 61
Alim, Raja, 62
America, 3, 4, 25, 31, 32, 41, 162, 163, 198, 199, 206
Amoy, 76, 116, 117, 205
Amritsar, 298
Anderson, John, 75
Andhra, 267, 268, 275, 283
Anglo-Dutch ‘Paper War’ (1819–1871), 74
Anglo-Dutch Treaty (1824), 39
anthropology, 290, 291, 293
Arabs, 67–70, 264, 297
Arai Hakuseki, 153
Arcot, 262, 263, 271, 276, 279, 280, 285
artisans, 138, 247, 248, 249, 257
Asahan, 68
Asian civilization, 41–2
Asian Eighteenth Century, 4–11, 42, 217, 237–8ff., ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- I J.C. Van Leur, 1908–1942: A Short Life in History
- II The Eighteenth Century in Southeast Asia
- III The Long Eighteenth Century and the New Age of Commerce in the Melaka Straits
- IV Periodization, Institutional Change and Eighteenth-century Java
- V Princes, Pretenders, and the Chinese Phrakhlang: An Analysis of the Dutch Evidence Concerning Siamese Court Politics, 1699–1734
- VI Japan in the Eighteenth Century: Demography and Economy
- VII From Company to Individual Company Servants: Dutch Trade in Eighteenth-century Japan
- VIII Domestic Interregional Trade in Eighteenth-century China
- IX The Impact of the International Tea Trade on the Social Economy of Northwest Fujian in the Eighteenth Century
- X The Eighteenth Century in Indian Economic History
- XI Trade and Politics in Eighteenth-century Bengal
- XII Merchants and Commerce in Coromandel: Trends and Tendencies in the Eighteenth Century
- XIII Van Leur and the Indian Eighteenth Century
- Index