Reading on Maritime Southeast Asia

  • Acri, A., et al, (Eds). 2017. Spirits and Ships: Cultural transfers in early monsoon Asia. Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.

  • Adams, J. 2001. "Ships and Boats as Archaeological Source Material." World Archaeology 32 (3): 292–310.

  • Alexanderson, K. 2019. Subversive Seas: Anticolonial networks across the twentieth century Dutch Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Andaya, B.W. 2006. "Oceans Unbounded: Transversing Asia across ‘Area Studies'." The Journal of Asian Studies 65 (4): 669–669. 

  • Andaya, B. W. 2017. "Seas, Oceans and Cosmologies in Southeast Asia." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 48 (3): 349-371.

  • Armitage, D., A. Bashford, and S. Sivasundaram (Eds.) 2018. Oceanic Histories. Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

  • Baker, C. 2003. "Ayutthaya Rising: From Land or Sea?" Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 34 (1): 41–62.

  • Beaujard, P. 2019. The Worlds of the Indian Ocean: A global history. Volume 1, From the fourth millennium BCE to the sixth century CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Beaujard, P. 2019. The Worlds of the Indian Ocean: A global history. Volume 2, From the seventh century to the fifteenth century CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Beaven, B., K. Bell, and R. James (Eds.) 2016. Port Towns and Urban Cultures: International histories of the waterfront, C.1700-2000. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Bellina, B., et al. 2019. "'Southeast Asian Early Maritime Silk Road trading polities’ hinterland and the sea-nomads of the Isthmus of Kra." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 54: 102-120. 

  • Bellina, B. 2014. "Maritime Silk Roads’ Ornament Industries: Socio-political practices and cultural transfers in the South China Sea." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 24 (3): 345-377.

  • Bentley, J. H., R. Bridenthal, and K. Wigen, 2016. Seascapes: Maritime histories. Littoral cultures, and transoceanic exchanges. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

  • Bowring, P. 2018. Empire of the Winds: The global role of Asia's great archipelago. London: Bloomsbury.

  • Broeze, F., (Ed). 1997. Gateways of Asia: Port Cities of Asia in the 13th-20th centuries. Kensington: New South Wales University Press.

  • Brown, R., and S. Sjostrand. 2002. Maritime Archaeology and Shipwreck Ceramics in Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur: Jabatan Muzium Malaysia.

  • Brown, R.M. 2004. The Ming Gap and Shipwreck Ceramics in Southeast Asia. PhD, Los Angeles: University of California.

  • Chaffee, J. 2018. The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China: The history of a maritime Asian trade diaspora, 750-1400. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Chia, Caroline. 2019. Hokkien Theatre Across The Seas: A Socio-Cultural Study. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.

  • Chin, J. 2018. China and Southeast Asia: Historical Interactions. London: Routledge.

  • Chew, S. 2018. The Southeast Asia Connection: Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy 500BC-AD 500. New York: Berghahn Books.

  • Chong, Alan, Richard Lingner, and Clement Oon, (Eds). 2016. Port Cities: Multicultural Emporiums of Asia, 1500–1900. Singapore: Asian Civilisations Museum.

  • Clark, H. R. 2011. "Secondary Ports and Their Cults: Religious innovation in the port system of greater Quanzhou (Southeast China) in the tenth to twelfth centuries." In The Growth of Non-Western Cities: Primary and secondary urban networking c. 900-1900, K. Hall, (Ed.). Plymouth: Lexington Books.

  • Clifford, S., and J. Fox. 2006. Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography. Canberra: ANU.

  • Cobb, M. 2018. The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity: Political, cultural and economic impacts. London: Routledge.

  • Cooney, G. 2004. “Introduction: Seeing land from the sea." World Archaeology 35 (3): 323–28.

  • Dromgoole, S. 2013. "Defining Underwater Cultural Heritage". In Underwater Cultural Heritage and International Law, 65–95. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Ducruet, C., (Ed). 2015. Maritime Networks: Spatial structures and time dynamics. London: Routledge.

  • Fahy, B. M. 2014. A Seat at the Table: Addressing artefact biases in Asian shipwreck assemblages. Honolulu: Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage.

  • Federspiel, H. M. 2008. Sultans, Shamans, and Saints: Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia. Bangkok: Silkworm Books.

  • Feeny, M., and T. Sevea. 2009. Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

  • Flatman, J. 2003. "Cultural Biographies, Cognitive Landscapes and Dirty Old Bits of Boat: ‘Theory’ in maritime archaeology." International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 32 (2): 143–57.

  • Flecker, M. 2008. "A 9th Century Arab or Indian Shipwreck in Indonesian Waters: Addendum." The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 37 (2): 384-386.

  • Ford, B. 2011a. "Coastal Archaeology." In The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology, D. L. Hamilton, B. Ford, and A. Catsambis, 763–85. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Ford, B., (Ed). 2011b. The Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes. Vol. 2. When the Land Meets the Sea. New York: Springer New York.

  • Frost, M. 2004. “Asia’s Maritime Networks and the Colonial Public Sphere, 1840-1920.” New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 6 (2): 63-94.

  • Fusaro, M., and A. Polónia, (Eds). 2010. Maritime History as Global History. St John's Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association.

  • Gala,. R. G. 2018. Women who Stay: Seafaring and Subjectification in an Ilocos Town. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

  • Gaynor, J. L. 2013. "Ages of Sail, Ocean Basins, and Southeast Asia." Journal of World History 24 (2): 309–33.

  • Gaynor, J. L. n.d. "Maritime Southeast Asia: Not just a crossroads." Education About Asia 19 (2): 14–

  • Gaynor, J. L. 2016. Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia: Submerged genealogy and the Legacy of Coastal Capture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

  • Giang, D. T. 2016. "Diplomacy, Trade and Networks: Champa in the Asian commercial context (7th-10th Centuries)." Moussons. Recherche En Sciences Humaines Sur l’Asie Du Sud-Est, 27: 59–82.

  • Gibson, T. 2005. And the Sun Pursued the Moon: Symbolic Knowledge and Traditional Authority Among the Makassar. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

  • Green, A., and M. R. Daud. 2019. Kapal Haji: Singapore and the Hajj Journey by Sea. World Scientific Publishing.

  • Hall, K. R. 2008. "Coastal Cities in an Age of Transition- Upstream-Downstream Networking and Societal Development in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Maritime Southeast Asia." In Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800, K. Hall. Lanham: Lexington Books.

  • Hall, K.R. 2009. "Ports-of-Trade, Maritime Diasporas, and Networks of Trade and Cultural Integration in the Bay of Bengal Region of the Indian Ocean: C. 1300-1500." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 53 (1/2): 109-145.

  • Hall, K. 2011. A History of Early Southeast Asia: Maritime Trade and Societal Development, 100-1500. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing.

  • Hall, K. 2019. Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

  • Haneda, M. 2009. "Introduction: Framework and methods of comparative studies on Asian port studies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries." In Asian Port Cities, 1600-1800: Local and foreign cultural interactions, M. Haneda, 1–12. Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, Singapore.

  • Hemawati, Retno and Muthia Zulfa. 2020. Tales of the Lands Beneath the Winds: Tracing the Indonesian Archipelago's Maritime Role in the History of the Spice Trade. Jakarta: Negeri Rempah Foundation.

  • Heng, D. 2009. Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the tenth through fourteenth century. Athens: Ohio University Press.

  • Helmreich, S. 2011. "Nature/Culture/Seawater." American Anthropologist 113 (1): 132–44.

  • Hung, H., and K. Nguyen. 2013. "Coastal Connectivity: Long-Term trading networks across the South China Sea". Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 8 (3): 384–404.

  • Isa, M., and M. Kaur, M. 2020. Between the Bay of Bengal and the Java Sea. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International Asia.

  • Jacq-Hergoualc'h, M. 2018. The Malay Peninsula: Crossroads of the Maritime Silk Road, 100 BC - 1300 AD. Leiden: BRILL.

  • Jowitt, C., C. Lambert, and S. Mentz, (Eds) The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400-1800. London: Routledge.

  • Junker, L. 1999. Raiding, Trading, and Feasting: The political economy of Philippine chiefdoms. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

  • Khan, Sher Banu A.I., 2017. Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699. Singapore: NUS Press.

  • Krahl, R., J. Wilson, J. Raby, J., and J Guy, (Eds). 2010. Shipwrecked: Tang treasures and monsoon winds. Singapore: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, National Heritage Board: Singapore Tourism Board.

  • Lambert, A. 2018. Seapower States: Maritime culture, continental empires and the conflict that made the modern world. New Haven: Yale University Press.

  • Landmann, A., A. Acri, and R. Blench, (Eds). 2017. Spirits and Ships: Cultural transfers in early monsoon Asia. Singapore: ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute.

  • Lewis, Su Lin. 2011. “Print Culture and the New Maritime Frontier in Rangoon and Penang.” Moussons, (17): 127-144.

  • Lieberman, V., 2010. "Maritime Influences in Southeaast Asia, c.900-1300: Some further thoughts." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 41 (3): 529-539.

  • Lockard, C. A. 2010. "The Sea Common to All’: Maritime frontiers, port cities, and Chinese traders in the Southeast Asian Age of Commerce, ca. 1400-1750." Journal of World History 21 (2): 219–219.

  • Manguin, P.-Y., A. Mani, and G. Wade, (Eds). 2011. Early interactions between South and Southeast Asia: Reflections on cross-cultural exchange. New Delhi: Manohar.

  • McPherson, Kenneth. 2002. “Port Cities as Nodal Points of Change: The Indian Ocean, 1890s-1920s.” In Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, Leila Tarazi Fawaz and C. A. Bayly (Eds.), 75-95. New York: Columbia University Press.

  • Miksic, J., and G. Geok Yian, (Eds). 2013. Ancient Harbours in Southeast Asia: The archaeology of early harbours and evidence of inter-regional trade. Bangkok: SEAMEO SPAFA Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts.

  • Miksic, J. 2013. Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300-1800. Singapore: NUS Press.

  • Mols, L., and M. Buitelaar, (Eds). 2015. Hajj: Global Interactions through Pilgrimage. Leiden: Sidestone Press.

  • Murphy, Stephen A., Michael Flecker, Regina Krahl, John Guy, John Miksic, Derek Heng, Kan Shuyi, François Louis, and Qi Dongfang, (Eds). 2017. The Tang Shipwreck: Art and Exchange in the 9th Century. Singapore: Asian Civilisations Museum.

  • National Museum of Singapore. 2019. An Old New World: From the East Indies to the Founding of Singapore, 1600s – 1819. Singapore: National Museum of Singapore.

  • National Museum of SIngapore. 2020. Encounters & Connected Histories: The East Indies and Singapore Before 1819. Singapore: National Museum of Singapore.

  • Orillaneda, B. C. 2016a. "Of Ships and Shipping: The maritime archaeology of fifteenth century CE Southeast Asia." In Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region, C. Wu (Ed.), 29–57. Singapore: Springer Singapore. 

  • Orillaneda, B. 2016b. "Maritime Trade in the Philippines During the 15th Century CE." Moussons. Recherche En Sciences Humaines Sur l’Asie Du Sud-Est, no. 27 (June): 83–100.

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  • Park, H. 2011. "Port-City Networking in the Indian Ocean Commercial System as Represented in Geographic and Cartographic Works in China and the Islamic West, c. 750-1500." In The Growth of Non-Western Cities: Primary and secondary urban networking c. 900-1900, K. Hall (Ed). Plymouth: Lexington Books.

  • Parthesius, R. 2010. Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia, 1595-1660. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

  • Park, H. 2012. Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds: Cross Cultural Exchange in pre-modern Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Parkin, D., and R. Branes, (Eds). 2016. Ships and the Development of Maritime Technology in the Indian Ocean. London: Routledge.

  • Parry, John. 1955. “The Story if Spices.” Economic Botany 9(2): 190-207.

  • Pearson, M. 2003. The Indian Ocean. London: Routledge.

  • Pearson, M. 2015. Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Petru, T. 2015. Graffiti, Converts and Vigilantes: Islam outside the mainstream in Maritime Southeast Asia. Vienna: Caesarpress.

  • Pham, C. M. H. 2015. "Maritime Cochinchina in the European Archives." Water History 7 (2): 1–17.

  • Pham, C. M. H. n.d. A Maritime Cultural Landscape of Cochinchina: The South China Sea, maritime routes, navigation, and boats in pre-colonial central Vietnam. PhD, Murdoch University. 

  • Ray, H.P. 2006. "The Axial Age in Asia: The archaeology of Buddhism (500 B.C.-A.D.500)." In Archaeology of Asia, M. T. Stark, (Eds), 303-323. Oxford: Blackwell.

  • Ray, H.P. and E. A. Alpers, (Eds). 2007. Cross Currents and Community Networks: The history of the Indian Ocean World. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

  • Ray, H.P. 2015. Beyond Trade Cultural Roots of India's Ocean. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.

  • Ray, H.P. 2016. Maritime Archaeology of the Indian Ocean. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Ray, H.P. 2019. "Buddhist Monuments Across the Bay of Bengal: Cultural routes and maritime networks." TRaNS: Trans-Regional and National Studies of Southeast Asia 7: 159-180.

  • Ray, H.P. 2020. Coastal Shrines and Transnational Maritime Networks Across India and Southeast Asia. London: Routledge.

  • Reid, A. 1993. "The Unthreatening Alternative: Chinese shipping in Southeast Asia 1567-1842." RIMA: Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs 27: 13–32.

  • Robinson, G., and T. King. 2019. At Home on the Waves: Human habitation of the sea from the Mesolithic to today. New York: Berghahn Books. 

  • Rogers, A. 2013. "Social Archaeological Approaches in Port and Harbour Studies." Journal of Maritime Archaeology 8 (2): 181–96.

  • Rönnby, J. 2007. "Maritime Durées: Long-Term structures in a coastal landscape." Journal of Maritime Archaeology 2 (2): 65–82.

  • Roszko, Edtya. 2020. Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

  • Rozwadowski, H. 2019. Vast Expanses: A history of the Oceans. London: Reaktion Books.

  • Ruggunan, S. 2016. Waves of Change: Globalisation and Seafaring Labour Markets. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

  • Schnepel, B., and T. Sen, (Eds). Travelling Pasts: The politics of cultural heritage in the Indian Ocean World. Leiden: BRILL.

  • Scott, William Henry. 1981. Boat Building and Seamanship in Classic Philippine Society. Manila: National Museum of the Philippines.

  • Scott-Ireton, D. 2014. Between the Devil and the Deep: Meeting challenges in the public interpretation of maritime cultural heritage. Cham: Springer.

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  • Tagliacozzo, E. 2007. "An Urban Ocean Notes on the Historical Evolution of Coastal Cities in Greater Southeast Asia." Journal of Urban History 33 (6): 911–32.

  • Tagliacozzo, E. 2013. The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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  • Victoria and Albert Museum, 2004. Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800. London: V&A.

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  • Wheeler, C. 2006. "Re-Thinking the Sea in Vietnamese History: Littoral society in the integration of Thuân-Qu Ng, Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 37 (1): 123.

  • Wu, C., (Ed). 2016. Early Navigation in the Asia Pacific Region: A Maritime Archaeological Perspective. Springer.

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