Yuriko Kikuchi - A History of Maritime Trade in Northern Vietnam, 12th to 18th Centuries: Archaeological Investigations in Vandon and Phohien

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Loren Brandt (University of Toronto, Canada)

Myung Soo Cha (Yeungnam University, Korea)

Nicholas Crafts (University of Warwick, UK)

Claude Diebolt (University of Strasbourg, France)

Barry Eichengreen (University of California at Berkeley, USA)

Stanley Engerman (University of Rochester, USA)

Price V. Fishback (University of Arizona, USA)

Avner Greif (Stanford University, USA)

Tirthanker Roy (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)

Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)

Jochen Streb (University of Mannheim, Germany)

Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt University, Germany)

(in alphabetical order)

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Translation from the Japanese language edition: by Yuriko Kikuchi, 2017. Published by . All Rights Reserved.

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This book is a translation of my Japanese volume, Betonamu hokubu ni okeru boekiko no kokogaku kenkyu: Van Don to Fo Hien o chushin ni [Archaeological research on trade ports in Northern Vietnam: focusing on Vn n and Ph Hin] (2017, Tokyo: Yuzankaku), which was based on my doctoral dissertation submitted in 2014 to the Department of Area Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Recently, maritime Asian trading is a popular topic for scholars and researchers in Asian countries including Japan. Their studies are, however, mainly based on historical documents. Archaeological remains are seldom focused on as the main body of discussion, and even if mentioned, they are presented as examples at best.

In this book, the history of the production of the Vietnamese ceramics exported overseas and the history of trading in Maritime Asia are connected by the results of the archaeological investigations at trading ports, and the stages of production, distribution and consumption of the traded goods, which used to be separately studied in Vietnamese archaeology, are discussed interrelating them mediated by ports. This method is a pioneer in global history, and hence, the integration of the results, that is this book, is of a great academic value.