Gateways of Asia: Port Cities of Asia in the 13th - 20th Centuries

Abstract

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 Penang, 1786-1832 - a promise unfulfilled Bombay and the famine of 1803-1806 - the food supply and public order of a colonial port Kuwait before oil - the dynamics and morphology of an Arab port 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 to a without a port Asian ports since 1945 - maritime change and port rivalry Japan's seaports during the era of high-speed growth, 1960-1975.

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