Gateways Of Asia : Port Cities of Asia in the 13th-20th Centuries (Hardcover)

Introduction - brides of the sea revisited; Aden in pre-Turkish times (1232-1538) - the Arabian entreport of the western Asian seas; Masulipatnam revisited, 1550-1750 - a survey and some speculations; Banten around the turn of the sixteenth century: trade and society in an Indonesian port city; Penang, 1786-1832 - a promise unfulfilled; Bombay and the famine of 1803-1806 - the food supply and public order of a colonial port city; Kuwait before oil - the dynamics and morphology of an Arab port city; Colombo and the re-making of Ceylon: a prototype of colonial Asian port cities; Bangkok in the 19th and 20th centuries - the dynamics and limits of port primacy; Kobe and Niigata - situation and site in the development of two Japanese port cities; Vladivostok - city and ocean in Russia's far east; Alleppey - from a port without a city to a city without a port; Asian ports since 1945 - maritime change and port rivalry; Japan's seaports during the era of high-speed growth, 1960-1975.