Empire Of The Winds By Philip Bowring HB DJ 2018 Tauris

Empire of the WindsThe Global Role of Asias Great Archipelago\nAuthor(s): Philip Bowring\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: I.B. Tauris\nISBN-13: 9781788314466, 978-1788314466\nSynopsis\nWinner of the Penang Book Prize 2019\n\nNusantaria often referred to as Maritime Southeast Asia is the worlds largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantara, a Sanskrit, then Malay, word referring to an island realm, is here adapted to become Nusantaria - denoting a slightly wider world but one with a single linguistic, cultural and trading base. Nusantaria encompasses the lands and shores created by the melting of the ice following the last Ice Age. These have long been primarily the domain of the Austronesian-speaking peoples and their seafaring traditions. The surrounding waters have always been uniquely important as a corridor connecting East Asia to India, the Middle East, Europe and Africa. In this .