Pirates, Ports, and Coasts in Asia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

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Synopsis: Pirates, Ports, and Coasts in Asia aims to fill some of the hostorical gaps in the coverage of maritime piracy and armed robbery in Asia. The authors highlight a variety of activities ranging from raiding, destroying and pillaging coastal villages and capturing inhabitants to attacking and taking over vessels, robbing and then trading the cargo and its people. Generally speaking, what connects these activities is the fact that they are carried out at sea, often in the coastal inshore waters, by vessels attacking other vessels or raiding coastal settlements. Acts of maritime piracy cannot be regarded as being located outside the relevant framework of the coastal zone. Coastal zones have therefore become highly desirable places subject to great social and ecological pressures. Piracy being the most dramatic of marginal(ized) maritime livelihood, this book brings the relationship between pirates, ports, and coastal hinterlands into focus.

About the Author: John Kleinen is an anthropologist and historian, and serves as an Associate Professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.||Manon Osseweijer is Deputy Director of the International Institute for Asian Studies, the Netherlands, and she co-organized the workshop from which the chapters of this book result

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Title: Pirates, Ports, and Coasts in Asia: ...
Publisher: Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New