Early Modern Colonialism in the Asia-Pacific Region

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2014

The study of early modern colonialism in the Asia-Pacific region is highly significant for re-thinking Global History, as historians are highlighting the region’s relevance in the transformation of global economy through its role in far-reaching trade networks. Thus, the important role of non-Angloamerican colonial agents (such as the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and others before 1800 C.E.) in the shaping of early modern colonialism is also being pointed out. Archaeology can and needs to make a contribution to this topic. This may be through, amongst others, the study of consumption patterns, environmental effects, demographic impacts, transformation of gender systems brought about by contact, role of material culture in these first colonial endeavours, and specifically, the important evidence that historical and maritime archaeology can provide. A history-archaeology joint collaboration is required in order to find new lines of evidence and and argumentation that enrich this topic.

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  1. Chinese Trade Networks and Material Culture’s Role in Cultural Change and Continuity around the Pacific Rim in the Nineteenth Century (2014)
  2. Colonialism in Southeast Asia in the late pre-modern period (2014)
  3. Domestic Trade Networks of Medieval Japan’s Seto Inland Sea (2014)
  4. Fresh Light on Drake and Company’s Sojourn on the West Coast of America in 1579 (2014)
  5. The Impact of the First Spanish Conquest on the Indigenous population in the Philippines (16th-18th centuries) (2014)
  6. Jesuits at the Margins: Missions and Missionaries in the Mariana Islands (1668-1769) (2014)
  7. Local, regional and global connections of San Salvador de Kelang, a Castilian enclave in northern Taiwan (2014)
  8. San Salvador de Kelang, Heping Dao, Taiwan (1626-1642): archaeology of Spanish early colonialism (2014)
  9. A ‘Stepping Stone’ of Spanish Colonialism in the Western Pacific: The Mariana Islands (2014)
  10. When ‘early’ modern colonialism comes late: Historical archaeology in Vanuatu (2014)