Introduction
Chapter 1. Autonomy and Subordination: The Cultural Dynamics of
Small Cities
Chapter 2. Suakin: A Port City of the Early Modern Sudan
Chapter 3. India from Aden: Khutba and Muslim Urban Networks in
Late Thirteenth-Century India
Chapter 4. At the Intersection of Empire and World Trade: The
Chinese Port City of Quanzhou (Zaitun), Eleventh-Fifteenth
Centuries
Chapter 5. Clearing the Fields and Strengthening the Walls:
Defending Small Cities in Late Ming China
Chapter 6. Secondary Capitals of Dai Viet: Shifting Elite Power
Bases
Chapter 7. Coastal Cities in an Age of Transition:
Upstream-Downstream Networking and Societal Development in
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Maritime Southeast Asia
Chapter 8. Missionary Buddhism in a Post-Ancient World: Monks,
Merchants, and Colonial Expansion in Seventeenth-Century
Cochinchina (Vietnam)
Chapter 9. Religious Networking and Upstream Buddhist Wall
Paintings in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Burma
Chapter 10. The Ottoman Balkan City: The Periphery as Center in
Punitive Spectacle
Chapter 11. A Tale of Three Cities: Burhanpur from 1400 to 1800
Chapter 12. Urban Primacy and Urban Hierarchy: Four Examples from
Southern India, c. 1000-1800
Kenneth R. Hall is professor of history at Ball State University.
A very useful and provocative collection of twelve essays on a
variety of themes and societies, stretching from China to Sudan.
Will be of interest to historians of Asian cities, the Indian Ocean
realm's economic and cultural networks, and the Early Modern world
generally.
*Craig A. Lockard, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay*
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