The Sea Route to Asia
Author : David Rutsala
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781422211281
Author : David Rutsala
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781422211281
Author : William B. Gottesman
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2002
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : Tony Napoli
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781598451276
"Examines the life of explorer Vasco da Gama, including his childhood in Portugal, his three expeditions to India, opening up the spice trade and expanding Portugal's empire, and his legacy in world history"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Ship & Ocean Foundation (Tokyo, Japan)
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release :
Category : Northeast passage
ISBN : 9784884040277
"The Nippon Foundation" -- cover.
Author : William Dampier
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : Mikasa no Miya Takahito
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 29,55 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : 9783447026987
"Contains most of the papers read to the 7th section, part 2 of the XXXIst International Congress of Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa held in Tokyo, Japan."--Pref.
Author : Jean-Paul Rodrigue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1136777326
Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geographical attributes. Transport systems composed of infrastructures, modes and terminals are so embedded in the socio-economic life of individuals, institutions and corporations that they are often invisible to the consumer. This is paradoxical as the perceived invisibility of transportation is derived from its efficiency. Understanding how mobility is linked with geography is main the purpose of this book. The third edition of The Geography of Transport Systems has been revised and updated to provide an overview of the spatial aspects of transportation. This text provides greater discussion of security, energy, green logistics, as well as new and updated case studies, a revised content structure, and new figures. Each chapter covers a specific conceptual dimension including networks, modes, terminals, freight transportation, urban transportation and environmental impacts. A final chapter contains core methodologies linked with transport geography such as accessibility, spatial interactions, graph theory and Geographic Information Systems for transportation (GIS-T). This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field, with a broad overview of its concepts, methods, and areas of application. The accompanying website for this text contains a useful additional material, including digital maps, PowerPoint slides, databases, and links to further reading and websites. The website can be accessed at: http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans This text is an essential resource for undergraduates studying transport geography, as well as those interest in economic and urban geography, transport planning and engineering.
Author : Kenneth R. Hall
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0824882083
This book brings something new in both dimension and detail to our understanding of Southeast Asia from the first to the fourteenth centuries. It puts Southeast Asia in the context of the international trade that stretched from Rome to China and draws upon a wide range of recent scholarship in history and the social sciences to redefine the role that this trade played in the evolution of the classical states of Southeast Asia. By examining the sources of Southeast Asia's classical era with the tools of modern economic history, the author shows that well-developed socioeconomic and political networks existed in Southeast Asia before significant foreign economic penetration took place. With the growth of interest in Southeast Asian commodities and the refocusing of the major East-West commercial routes through the region during the early centuries of the Christian era, internal conditions within Southeast Asia adjusted to accommodate increased external contacts. Hall takes the view that Southeast Asia's response to international trade was a reflection of preexisting patterns of trade and statecraft. In the forty years since Coede's monumental work The Indianized States of Southeast Asia was published, a great deal of archaeological and epigraphical work has been done and new interpretations advanced. By integrating new theoretical constructs, recent archaeological finds and interpretations, and his own informed reading and research, Kenneth R. Hall puts his historical narrative on a large canvas and treats areas not previously brought together for discussion along comparative lines. Like Coedes' work, his book will be important as a basic text for the teaching of early Southeast Asian history.
Author : Nola Cooke
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0812205022
Since 2005, a series of significant developments has been unfolding in the area of the Tongking Gulf under the rubric of an ambitious project called "Two Corridors and One Rim." Proposed by Vietnam in 2004 and enthusiastically embraced by China, the project is designed to link their shared shores and hinterlands by superhighways and high-speed rail. An area that had seemed a backwater for two hundred years has suddenly become a dynamic engine of growth. Yet how innovative are these developments? Drawing on fresh historical insights and recent archaeological research in northern Vietnam and southern China, The Tongking Gulf Through History reveals that this region has long been a center of cultural, political, and economic exchange. From a historical point of view, contributors argue, the Gulf of Tongking has come full circle. Inspired by the Braudelian vision that regionality arises from long-term human interactions, essays avoid state-centered approaches of nationalist histories to focus on local communities throughout the Gulf. In doing so, they reveal a complex pattern of interrelationships and geopolitical factors that has shaped the gulf region for over two millennia. The first half of the volume covers the era from the Neolithic to the tenth century, when an independent state emerged from old Chinese Jiaozhi, or modern northern Vietnam; the second surveys the nine centuries that followed, in which only two states came to share the maritime shores of the Tongking Gulf. Together, the essays illuminate how millennia of recurring human interactions within this geographical space have created a regional ensemble with its own longstanding historical integrity and dynamics.
Author : Craig Benjamin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107114969
Introduces a crucial period of world history when the vast exchange network of the Silk Roads connected most of Eurasia.