Overview
- Presents research on the heritage of galleon affiliated seaports
- Reconstructs the history of Spanish pan-Pacific navigation
- Describes the new frontiers of the Maritime Silk Road and early maritime globalization
Part of the book series: The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation (AAPN, volume 2)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Yuegang Outbound: The Archaeology of Yuegang as the Key Transit Terminal for Manila Galleon
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Manila Entreportting: Discovery of Galleon Trade Heritage at Manila, Macao, Keelung and Nagasaki
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Bound for Acapulco: The Archaeology of the Pacific and America as the Galleon Navigation Record
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About this book
Written by archaeologists and cultural historians from America, Mexico, Japan, the Philippines, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, it presents the latest investigations and research on the galleon-affiliated seaports, including Acapulco and San Blas in Mexico, Guam, Manila in Philippines, Yuegang (Crescent Harbor), Xiamen (Amoy), Keelung and Macao in China, Nagasaki in Japan. This joint research sheds new light on the history of navigation and maritime trade between galleon-affiliated harbors; the origin, production, transport and trade of the galleon cargo; social cultural exchange along the new Maritime Silk Road in the pan-Pacific region; and the history of maritime globalization in last 500 years. It offers a new perspective on maritime archaeology and traces the different stages of the galleon trade and affiliated maritime history, including "Yuegang Outbound", "Manila Entrepotting" and "Bound for Acapulco", presenting a panoramagram of Spanish pan-Pacific trade and early maritime globalization.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
He has published 6 monographs: Archaeological Research of the History and Cultures of Prehistoric Aboriginals in Southeast China (1999), Archaeological Research of Capital of Min-Yue Kingdom of Han Dynasty(1998), The Shipwreck Archaeology in Seas Surrounding China (2003), Maritime Archaeology (2007), The Maritime Cultural Interaction between Indigenous Yue and Austronesian (2012),The Archaeological and Historical Research on the Maritime Cultural Heritage (2016), and more than 150 academic papers.
Roberto Junco Sanchez is an archaeological researcher and underwater archaeologist. He graduated from the National School of Anthropology and History in Mexico City with a master’s degree and a PhD, and also holds a diploma in Historical Archaeology from Leicester University. Since 2004, he has worked at the Underwater Archaeology department at the National Institute of Anthropology and History. He has worked on projects in Veracruz, Campeche and Guerrero, and surveyed in the Gulf of Mexico for the lost galleons of the 1631 fleet. He has written on diverse topics, such as historical archaeology, Chinese porcelain in Mexico, and the prehispanic rituality of Mexico. He is currently excavating the Manila Galleonsat the port of Acapulco.
Miao Liu holds a PH.D. in Archaeology and Museology from Nankai University, and is an Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Department of History of Xiamen University. Her focus is maritime archaeology and the history of Chinese export ceramics. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Archaeology Institute of UCLA, USA. She has published numerous papers on the topic of maritime history, ceramic cultural history and southeast China’s Maritime Silk Road.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Archaeology of Manila Galleon Seaports and Early Maritime Globalization
Editors: Chunming Wu, Roberto Junco Sanchez, Miao Liu
Series Title: The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9248-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9247-5Published: 12 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9250-5Published: 12 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-32-9248-2Published: 31 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-7468
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7476
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 268
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 186 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, Ancient History, World History, Global and Transnational History