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Resilience and adaptation of trade networks in East African and South Asian port polities, 1500--1800 C.E.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Resilience and adaptation of trade networks in East African and South Asian port polities, 1500--1800 C.E./
Author:	Oka, Rahul Chandrashekhar.
Description:	394 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-06, Section: A, page: 2327.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-06A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3316756
ISBN:	9780549655404

Resilience and adaptation of trade networks in East African and South Asian port polities, 1500--1800 C.E.
Oka, Rahul Chandrashekhar.

Resilience and adaptation of trade networks in East African and South Asian port polities, 1500--1800 C.E. - 394 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-06, Section: A, page: 2327.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Chicago, 2008.

This thesis had three objectives. The first was to understand the responses of trade specialists to changes in conditions under which they conduct their businesses. The second objective was to model the effects of these responses on trader networks and the resulting feedback into the larger political economy. The third objective was to understand the effect of these transitions on the peripheral ports of the Western Indian Ocean, specifically the port cities of Mtwapa, Kenya, and Chaul, India, 1500-1700 C.E. I combined my ethnographic and oral historiographic research on contemporary Afrasian trade specialists with theories of complexity, resilience, and adaptation to generate the "Trading Systems" model. This model was applied to the Early Modern Era in the Indian Ocean. The propositions and hypothesized changes in the peripheral trading ports derived from the model were tested using archaeometric and archaeological analysis on excavated prestige ceramics from Chaul and Mtwapa. My results suggest that while there was an economic and trade boom in the Indian Ocean in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at both ports, Mtwapa rapidly went into decline during this "boom" period and dropped out of the Indian Ocean Trade Complex by the mid-eighteenth century C.E. From my analysis, the rise of political stability and trade-friendliness privileged commercial production and trading specialists. As indispensable middlemen during European-induced maritime hostilities and ecological crises wrought by the Little Ice Age, Asian trade specialists generated an economy focused on mass-production and distribution of finished commodities from the East and South Asian "core" to the "peripheral" ports of the Indian Ocean and elsewhere. I argue that these macro-scale transitions altered the consumption behaviors, sociopolitical organization and the production-distribution infrastructure at Mtwapa. There was an attrition of resources away from local revenue generating activities to wasteful public "redistributive" ventures and this ultimately led to the flight of capital and elite leadership away from the port city.

ISBN: 9780549655404Subjects--Topical Terms:

622985
Anthropology, Archaeology.

Resilience and adaptation of trade networks in East African and South Asian port polities, 1500--1800 C.E.
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