TY - BOOK AU - Shiraishi,Takashi ED - Nihon Kokusai Mondai Kenkyūjo, ED - Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan, TI - Empire of the seas: thinking about Asia SN - 9784866581262 AV - DS515 .S5513 2021 U1 - 950 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo PB - Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture KW - Regionalism KW - East Asia KW - Southeast Asia KW - Colonies KW - Asia KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century N1 - "Originally published in 2000 under the Japanese title Umi no teikoku : Ajia o dō kangaeru ka by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc."--Title page verso; Translation of: Umi no teikoku : Ajia o dō kangaeru ka; Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-175) and index; Raffle's dream -- The Bugis Sea -- Toddling Leviathans -- The formation of plural societies -- The logic of the civilizing project -- The new imperial order -- Nation-state building from above -- Thinking about Asia -- Afterword -- Addendum: 2020 N2 - "Winner of the 2000 Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo Prize for academic writing on politics, economics, and history, this book locates the modern history of Sotheast Asia within the framework of a 'maritime Asia' which emerged from trade and commerce, state formation, imperial/global hegemonic ambitions, and popular resistance."-- ER -