The Archaeological Record of Indian Ocean Engagements

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Far East ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Neutral Model ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Exchange Networks ◽  
The Far East

With the Bay of Bengal littoral as its focus, this chapter reviews the archaeological evidence for human expansions, migrations, formation of exchange networks, long-distance trade, political impulses, and transmissions of technocultural traditions in deep time, from around 5000 bc to 500 ad. In doing so, the author offers the idea of the Bay of Bengal Interaction Sphere, a “neutral” model of analysis that sets aside the constraints of the old Indianization debate for South-Southeast Asian interaction and situates the Bay within a broader global framework extending from the Mediterranean to the Far East in a new narrative of contact and change.

The “Scrubby Scotch Screw Company”: British India Steam Navigation Co.'s Coastal Services in South Asia, 1862-1870

1992 ◽  
pp. 43-72
Author(s):  
J. Forbes Munro
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Far East ◽  
British India ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Maritime Region

The 1860s were marked by a gradual spread of steamship lines in the Indian Ocean maritime region. On the long routes from Suez and Aden to India, Australia and the Far East, P&O, the “flagship” of British imperialism in the region,1 was joined from 1861 by its French counterpart, Messageries Imperiales, which in its steamship lines from Marseilles to Alexandria and from Suez to Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong and Yokohama expressed the aspirations and elegance of Napoleon Ill's empire. The two firms politely manoeuvred for passenger traffic and the fine freights--silks, raw silk, opium, bullion and specie--which were the perfect accompaniment for mail and passenger liners....

A Criminal Trial at Sea in 1582

1956 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 406-409
Author(s):  
E. G. R. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Criminal Trial ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Commanding Officer ◽  
Northwest Passage ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Objective Being ◽  
At Home

That a ship's captain may exercise supreme powers when at sea has been recognized since maritime laws were first formulated. But when Francis Drake summarily executed Thomas Doughty in Patagonia in 1578 there were serious misgivings at home, and the commanding officer of the next long distance expedition was hedged about with carefully thought out restrictions, and ordered, save ia the last resort, to bring any serious offender home as a prisoner. This voyage was organized and financed by the Earl of Leicester, Drake and a number of City merchants, its objective being to open up trade with the Far East by a voyage round the Cape. It had originally been intended to put Martin Frobisher in command, but for reasons unknown a gentleman and soldier of fortune, who had been with him on the second and third voyages to the Northwest Passage, Captain Edward Fenton, was substituted for Frobisher. This caused murmuring among the sailors who evidently thought poorly of him. And he did indeed turn out a weak, vacillating leader, though full of his own importance, so that the voyage was a failure, and two of his ships actually left him.

scholarly journals Editorial Introduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Gwyn Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Far East ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Editorial Introduction ◽  
China Seas ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Commercial Exchange ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean World

The Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies (JIOWS) is a multidisciplinary, open access journal that accepts articles on all aspects of the history and culture of the Indian Ocean World (IOW) – a macro-region that runs from Africa to the Far East, and includes the Indian Ocean, Indonesian and China seas and their continental hinterlands.This inaugural issue focuses on various instances of interaction in the IOW. From commercial exchange between otherwise opposing commercial enterprises, to personal interactions between Europeans and peoples indigenous to the IOW, to the experiences and strategies of slaves, the issue explores various instances in which categories of “foreign” and “indigenous” come into alignment or conflict in historiography, colonial narratives, or commercial enterprises.

scholarly journals The Far East taiga forest: unrecognized inhospitable terrain for migrating Arctic-nesting waterbirds?

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e4353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Wang ◽  
Lei Cao ◽  
Inga Bysykatova ◽  
Zhenggang Xu ◽  
Sonia Rozenfeld ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Migration Routes ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Waterbird Species ◽  
Taiga Forest ◽  
Migration Strategies ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migrating Birds ◽  
First Time

The degree of inhospitable terrain encountered by migrating birds can dramatically affect migration strategies and their evolution as well as influence the way we develop our contemporary flyway conservation responses to protect them. We used telemetry data from 44 tagged individuals of four large-bodied, Arctic breeding waterbird species (two geese, a swan and one crane species) to show for the first time that these birds fly non-stop over the Far East taiga forest, despite their differing ecologies and migration routes. This implies a lack of suitable taiga refuelling habitats for these long-distance migrants. These results underline the extreme importance of northeast China spring staging habitats and of Arctic areas prior to departure in autumn to enable birds to clear this inhospitable biome, confirming the need for adequate site safeguard to protect these populations throughout their annual cycle.

Is there a regional culture in Russia? Opportunities of using a sociocultural approach in economics

2020 ◽  
pp. 108-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Bryzgalin ◽  
Е. N. Nikishina
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Geographical Patterns ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Sociocultural Approach ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Russian Universities

The paper investigates cross-cultural differences across Russian regions using the methodology of G. Hofstede. First, it discusses the most common approaches in measuring culture and the application of the Hofstede methodology in subnational studies. It identifies the critical issues in measuring culture at the regional level and suggests several strategies to address them. Secondly, the paper introduces subregional data on individualism and uncertainty avoidance using a survey of students across 27 Russian universities. The data allow to establish geographical patterns of individualism in Russia. It is demonstrated that collectivism is most prevalent in the Volga region, while individualism characteristic becomes stronger towards the Far East. The findings are robust to the inclusion of various controls and different specifications of the regression model. Finally, the paper provides a discussion about the potential of applying the sociocultural approach in economics.

The Portuguese Possessions in the Far East

1937 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-47
Author(s):  
R. G. S.
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
The Far East
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