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OverviewMakassar was one of those early-modern Southeast Asia kingdoms which has been seen as exemplifying The Age of Commerce, both in its trade based prosperity in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and its decline into insignificance following conquest by the Dutch East Indies Company in 1667. However, statistical analysis of the Dutch harbourmasters registers (which listed incoming and outgoing non-Company traffic) reveals that Makassar actually succeeded in establishing new and profitable networks after a difficult period of transition. Initially the Company confined the port's private sector overseas trade and shipping within narrow limits, but by the middle of the eighteenth century new routes and traders had emerged. Whereas slaves and rice had once been predominant exports, focused upon the colonial centres of Batavia and Maluku, by the mid-1700s sea produce, in particular sea cucumbers, had become the most important commodity. This marine product was in great demand in China, and the consequent dramatic shift in Makassars commercial profile was reflected in new patterns of exchange, within which Chinese merchants and skippers gradually surpassed all other ethnicities in importance. This volume provides detailed material on shipping, crews, armament, routes, merchandise and skippers, and hence offers unique insights into both the trade of Makassar itself, and the wider transformations of Asian commerce in the eighteenth century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gerrit Knaap , Heather A. SutherlandPublisher: K.I.T.L.V. Imprint: K.I.T.L.V. Volume: 224 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.463kg ISBN: 9789067182324ISBN 10: 906718232 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 01 January 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationHeather Sutherland (1943) is an historian who was trained at the Australian National University and Yale. At present she is professor of Non-Western History at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Gerrit Knaap (1954) obtained his PhD as an historian from Utrecht University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |