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The Structure of Cities in Southeast Asia, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Anthony Reid
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Maritime Southeast Asia is one of those parts of the world destined by geography to be an international marketplace. Not only is it the largest of the world's archipelagos, penetrated throughout by sea and river, it also lies athwart one of the major international trading routes, between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean on the one hand and China and Japan on the other. These factors have always given to maritime Southeast Asia a role akin to the Mediterranean world, in which sea-borne trade was the vital factor in urban growth and in political power. In addition, however, Southeast Asia was the principal source of the items in greatest demand in the world's markets in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries — pepper, cloves, nutmeg, and camphor.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , September 1980 , pp. 235 - 250
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1980

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