Trade networks in the Inner-East-Southeast Asian borderlands

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"Zomia" is a shorthand reference to the huge, massif  of mainland Southeast Asia, running from the Central Highlands of Vietnam westward all the way to northeastern India and including the southwest Chinese provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and western Guangxi.
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Zomia is a geographical term [... for] the huge massif of mainland Southeast Asia that has historically been beyond the control of governments based in the population centers of the lowlands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zomia_(geography)

"Zomia and Beyond", a theme issue of the JOURNAL OF GLOBAL HISTORY,
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Incl.
* Across Zomia with merchants, monks, and musk: process geographies, trade networks, and the Inner-East-Southeast Asian borderlands
C. Patterson Giersch
Journal of Global History, Volume 5, Issue 02, July 2010, pp 215-239

* Borderlands and border narratives: a longitudinal study of challenges and opportunities for local traders shaped by the Sino-Vietnamese border
Sarah Turner
Journal of Global History, Volume 5, Issue 02, July 2010, pp 265-287

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Piracy and trade on the western coast of India (AD 1-250)

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Piracy and trade on the western coast of India (AD 1-250) 
Author: Sunil Gupta
DOI: 10.1080/00672700709480449
Publication Frequency: 3 issues per year
Published in: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Volume 42, Issue 1 2007 , pages 37 - 51
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Abstract
This paper explores the theme of 'piracy and trade in the Indian Ocean' with respect to the situation prevailing on the western coast of India in the first three centuries AD. References to pirates on the western Indian coastland contained in Graeco-Roman sources such as the Periplus Maris Erythraei (first century AD), the Natural History of Pliny (first century AD) and the Geographia of Ptolemy (second century AD) have been taken at face value and integrated into historical discourse without critical analysis. This study seeks to situate the 'piracy and trade' theme in proper historical perspective; both in the context of the western Indian coastlands and the Indian Ocean in general. The study draws from archaeological surveys of the Konkan and Kanara coastal tracts conducted between 1992-96 and 2000-2002.

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Dutch Slavery and Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean in the Seventeenth Century

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Markus Vink. 2003.
"The World's Oldest Trade": Dutch Slavery and Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean in the Seventeenth Century.
Journal of World History, June 2003, Vol. 14, No. 2
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Abstract:
[...] This article discusses various aspects of Dutch slavery and slave trade in the Indian Ocean: the markets of supply and demand or geographic origins and destinations of slaves; the routes to slavery or the diverse means of recruitment of forced labor; the miscellaneous occupations performed by company and private slaves; the size of Dutch slavery and the volume of the accompanying annual slave trade; and the various forms of slave resistance and slave revolt. The findings presented here are tentative, illustrating broad contours in bold, sweeping strokes. Further research will be necessary to fill in the details and shed new light on the world's oldest trade in the Indian Ocean basin, but the protracted history of silence has finally ended. [...]

Markets of Supply: Origins of Slaves
Markets of Demand: Destinations of Slaves
Routes to Slavery
Slave Occupations
Size of Dutch Slavery and Volume of the Slave Trade
Slave Resistance and Slave Revolt
Conclusion
Notes

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