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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume I
- Part I Rethinking the Pacific
- Part II Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean
- Part III Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific
- Part IV The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
- Part V The Evolution of Pacific Communities
- 22 Towards a Unified Theory for Pacific Colonization, Exchange, and Social Complexity
- 23 The Evolution of China’s Political Economy of the Sea, 960 ce–1900 ce
- 24 China and the Sea in Literature and (Mis)Perception, 1644–1839
- 25 Pacific History Viewed from Eastern Indonesia: The Eastern Archipelago of Southeast Asia and the Sea in the Early Modern Period 1400–1830s
- 26 The Maritime Cultures of the Northwest Pacific Seaboard of the Americas
- 27 Mesoamerican–South American Pre-Columbian Pacific Contacts: Evidence, Objects, and Traditions, 1500 bce–1532 ce
- Part VI Europe’s Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
- References to Volume I
- Index
25 - Pacific History Viewed from Eastern Indonesia: The Eastern Archipelago of Southeast Asia and the Sea in the Early Modern Period 1400–1830s
from Part V - The Evolution of Pacific Communities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2022
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume I
- Part I Rethinking the Pacific
- Part II Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean
- Part III Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific
- Part IV The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
- Part V The Evolution of Pacific Communities
- 22 Towards a Unified Theory for Pacific Colonization, Exchange, and Social Complexity
- 23 The Evolution of China’s Political Economy of the Sea, 960 ce–1900 ce
- 24 China and the Sea in Literature and (Mis)Perception, 1644–1839
- 25 Pacific History Viewed from Eastern Indonesia: The Eastern Archipelago of Southeast Asia and the Sea in the Early Modern Period 1400–1830s
- 26 The Maritime Cultures of the Northwest Pacific Seaboard of the Americas
- 27 Mesoamerican–South American Pre-Columbian Pacific Contacts: Evidence, Objects, and Traditions, 1500 bce–1532 ce
- Part VI Europe’s Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
- References to Volume I
- Index
Summary
The area of eastern Indonesia is part of the nation-state of Indonesia in the region of Southeast Asia. But this internationally defined nation-state and region were arbitrarily determined, and studies have revealed fissures that were oftentimes the result of colonial boundaries artificially drawn and based more on administrative convenience than true unities. Even after the removal of colonial control and the emergence of independent nation-states in the mid-twentieth century, the colonial political boundaries were generally retained, bequeathing to the new governments the ongoing problem of separatist movements within their borders. Complicating matters has been the later formation of regional associations, which have produced another layer of arbitrary entities. In this chapter I have ignored regional and national units that were created in Southeast Asia after World War II by arguing that eastern Indonesia can be properly and profitably studied as part of ‘Pacific’ society (Figure 25.1).
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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean , pp. 574 - 592Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023