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The Sulu Zone, 1768–1898
The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery, and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State
- Publisher
- NUS Press
- Year
- 19812nd edition 2007
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 390
- ISBN
- 9789971693862
- Availability
- In print
Still in print: the link goes to a shop that sells it.
About the book
The Sulu Sultanate at its height as a trading state: the China trade in sea produce, the slave raiding that fed it, and the peoples it drew in, from Spanish, British and Dutch archives. The book that made the Sulu Zone a field of study. Second edition 2007.
James Francis Warren's book studies the "border zone" around the Sulu and Celebes Seas from 1768 to 1898, and its ties with China and the West. He shows how the China trade changed the Sulu Sultanate. It brought organised, long-distance slave raiding at sea, and captives were absorbed into a Malay Muslim society on a scale not seen before.
Warren rebuilds the social, economic and political ties among the many peoples of the zone, with the sultanate at its centre. He questions labels such as "piracy", "slavery", "ethnicity" and "the state". The publisher notes that he gives a place to people historians often leave out: forest dwellers, highlanders and slaves, and the fishers, raiders, divers and traders of everyday life.
Warren is a professor of history and Southeast Asian studies at Murdoch University in Australia. The book first appeared in 1981. NUS Press brought out a second edition of 440 pages in 2007.
From nuspress.nus.edu.sg, archive.org.
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